DNS mail problem

marydavid

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Hi,

I am new to Direct Admin and DNS. Excuse me if my question is silly, but your help is appreciated.

I have a dedicated server, with Direct admin. A friend of mine want to host his site in my server, instead of change the "namesever", he change the "A-record" of "www" to my IP, because he did not want to change the existing mail server.

Now, the website is working fine. But any SMTP account in this server cannot send email to him. I guess the problem is the server "think" his site's mail server is also in the same machine.

please advice how to deal with this problem, thanks!
 
First make sure that DNS is enabled for the user (I know, you're not using it, but to do this it must be enabled).

Then go to the user interface and click on MX Records.

Then change the MX records to show his server's mx. While not really necessary, doing so will document what's going on.

Then uncheck the box and save. Then DirectAdmin will know to find his mx server.

Jeff
 
I have aother question, though it may not related to this topic.

In my case, the dedicated server is rent from a hosting company. They provide me a nameserver, to input in godaddy.com for my domain, for example,

ns55.example.com
ns56.example.com

Then, the DNS address analysis is done by the above two machine. And finally provide my server's IP to visitor, am I correct?

My question is in my Directadmin's DNS management, if I change anything, does it matter? Because my server is not doing the DNS address analysis.

Thanks!
 
If you're not using your DNS server, then it shouldn't matter. Since you haven't given us any real domains to check there's no way I can assure you that you're not using it.

If you want assurance you're not using it then post the main IP# assigned to your server, and the name of a domain hosted on it.

Jeff
 
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