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DNS Server for .com & .net

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by jgwynn

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I have a location which I am trying to use the same dns server for both .com and .net domains. I have created a zone called company.com with pointers to all my hosts and an MX record to mail.company.com. I then created a new zone named company.net with points to the same hosts but I want the MX record to go to mail.company.net so that I may run two seperate email servers. All seams to work fine but the .net MX record gets returned as a blank response from a dnslookup. I get the proper ip address returned from mail.company.net and I can telnet into both ports 25 and 110 using mail.company.net

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by jerrym mcse+i / a+

Hi,
It sounds like you need to setup the reverse zone, you didn't specify if you are using MS DNS or not but this article will tell you how to setup the reverse zone for MS DNS (it't not automatically done)
goto the microsoft site www.microsoft.com, support, knowledge base, click to the left of "specific article number" (select it), then enter Q174419, then click on "go"...this article should get you going...
Thank you for the post!..jer

by jgwynn

Thanks, I ended up using register.com for my DNS which has made life much simpler.

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