[ale] godaddy for DNS

[Erik Mathis]

You need an MX record pointing the VM for mail to get delivered to
your server. Also you will want bith forward and reverse DNS matching
for your outbound email to really work. Most mail admins, block mail
from IPs that dont match.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_record

-Erik-

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:12 AM, John Heim <john at johnheim.net> wrote:
> Hi, I have a donated virtual machine to use for a non-profit. Its for the
> International Association of Visually Impaired Technologists (IAVIT). I've
> registered iavit.org at godaddy. But I'm a little confused as to what DNS
> records I need in order to get mail (postfix, dovecot)  and lists (mailman)
> to work. I need email addresses like john at iavit.org to work and addresses
> like announce at lists.iavit.org to work.
> What I have at the moment is an A record with a blank host name pointing to
> the IP of our VM, another A record for lists that points to the same IP
> address. I wasn't sure you could have 2 A records pointing to the same IP
> address but it seems to work.  Then I have CNAME records for www and wiki
> pointing to lists.
>
> Can I point godday to a DNS server on the virtual machine itself? I tried to
> do that but it balked. For one thing, it said I needed 2 DNS servers. I'm
> not sure what the point of that is because iif DNS is down on the VM,
> nothing else on the VM is going to work anyway.
>
>
>
>
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