topic Re: MX record ? in Operating System - HP-UX

MX record ?

suhail_1 — Mon, 14 Oct 2002 11:07:24 GMT

hi !
how do i change MX record remotely ?

lets say i have three domians
1 ; abc.com
2 : 123.com
3 : xyz.com

now what i want is when soem one send mail to someone@abc.com it should go to 123.com also when soem one send mail to sombody@xyz.com also it should go to 123.com

how do i do that by changing the MX record ? if yes then tell me how can i do that remotly,
should i request internic to do that if yes then how?
well i am very confused at this point ,
any help ?
Thanks in advance
suhail kaleem

Re: MX record ?

Christopher Caldwell — Mon, 14 Oct 2002 11:14:19 GMT

You're trying to figure out who owns the name servers for abc.com, 123.com, and xyz.com.

$nslookup
set type=ns
abc.com.

{you'll get answer 1 here}

123.com.
{you'll get answer 2 here}

xyz.com.
{you'll get answer 3 here}

You'll need to figure out who runs the servers for (1, 2, and 3). Have them modify the MX record.

Re: MX record ?

suhail_1 — Mon, 14 Oct 2002 11:26:56 GMT

ok !
i have the ips
no what ?
remmber i want to modify MX record remotly ? do i have to send request to internic or not/
can you please tell em how will i modify MX record ?
Suhailkaleem

Re: MX record ?

Christopher Caldwell — Mon, 14 Oct 2002 11:30:51 GMT

Post the real names (for abc.com, 123.com, xyz.com) and the IPs of the name servers.

Re: MX record ?

suhail_1 — Mon, 14 Oct 2002 11:35:02 GMT

It can be any domian ame
just tell me general way

here are my domian
pakidost.com
ip : 213.171.192.236

realitywebdesigns.co.uk
ip : 213.232.89.21

now tell me ?

suhailkaleem

Re: MX record ?

suhail_1 — Mon, 14 Oct 2002 11:36:53 GMT

u there ?

Re: MX record ?

Christopher Caldwell — Mon, 14 Oct 2002 11:44:57 GMT

Re: MX record ?

suhail_1 — Mon, 14 Oct 2002 12:29:01 GMT

hi !
i still dont get it how am i able to redirct mail to suhailkaleem@realitywebdesigns.co.uk
when some one sends mail to suhailkaleem@pakidost.com

suhailkaleem

Re: MX record ?

W.C. Epperson — Tue, 15 Oct 2002 14:35:16 GMT

Technically, the "whois" records reflect contacts for the registration. The contact actually responsible for the DNS zone is the "person" field of the DNS SOA record. (dig domainname soa).

For realitywebdesigns.co.uk, it's admin@domain.com and for pakidost.com, it's administrator@pakidost.com.

Whether you get help from the SOA contact or the whois contact, you need MX records set to redirect the domains:
xyz.com IN MX 123.com.
abc.com IN MX 123.com.

This presumes that there is an A record for "123.com" that points to the IP of a mailserver that is configured to do local delivery for xyz.com and abc.com

Re: MX record ?

suhail_1 — Tue, 15 Oct 2002 17:00:59 GMT

can i change the dns record my self remotly i dont have physical acess to the servers , can i change the dns record remotly with the help of some asp/php script?
i dont wnat to contact nay body is that possilbe?
suhailkaleem

Re: MX record ?

W.C. Epperson — Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:54:24 GMT

DNS zone changes need to be made on the "authoritative" server for the zone, as indicated on the SOA record. Unless you have a way to take control of that server remotely, I think you're going to have to deal with its sysadmin.

Re: MX record ?

Sean OB_1 — Thu, 17 Oct 2002 17:30:09 GMT

You can not do this remotely, unless you have administrative access to the server.

If you are not the DNS admin for those zones, I would STRONGLY RECOMMEND that you don't mess with them, even if you do have admin access.

To me your question sounds like something a hacker would want to know.

It sounds like you want to route someone else's mail to your server without them knowing about it.

Re: MX record ?

suhail_1 — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 10:22:18 GMT

hi !
i just wanted to know the working of everyone.net
this compnay give user email space on their servers you just give them your domain and your mail will route to their servers and then user can acces there mailbox uisng there servers
i was looking for a way where i can host the application ( hotmail like application ) on some shared hosting space then remotly control the dns setting of both my clients ( the people which will sign for email space ) also i wnated to control the dns setting of sahred server
remmber i dont have physical access
that is what i wanted to do but i think there is no way to do that unless i have physical acess
am i right ?

i am no hacker !
suhailkaleem