DNS Settings help

[krohde]

Help reqired for setting DNS settings:

I currently have a domain registered with Yahoo. I like the service offered by yahoo but I want to expand my site and have a hosting option with Infinology. My problem is as follows

I have a domain rohdeonlineXYZ.com (remove XYZ) but i want web page traffic to load off my hosting with infinology but I want yahoo to handle my mail services. Is this possible? I don't have a static IP with either of them, but I was wondering if I can splitthe service like this...

I have heard about the URL forwarders but since i don't want to link my domain to some username and number URL provided by infinology I was wondering if there is a better solution.

Any ideas or solutions will be appreciated, :)

KRohde

[zimv20]

yes, you can split services. i used to have one server handle my http and another my email. i used zoneedit.com to set up the DNS. it's free.

[zimv20]

more info...

the way you split it is to define subdomains and point them to different IPs. e.g. you'll have rohdeonlineXYZ.com point to one IP, then define something like mail.rohdeonlineXYZ.com and point it at a different IP.

for zoneedit purposes, you'll make two A records for those, then define an MX record (under Mail Servers) to define which subdomain will handle the mail.

here's what mine looks like (note that i now have all services on one machine):

IP addresses:
Domain Name / IP Address
boxsetauthentic.com 66.246.51.173
ftp.boxsetauthentic.com 66.246.51.173
mail.boxsetauthentic.com 66.246.51.173
www.boxsetauthentic.com 66.246.51.173

Mail Servers:
Domain / Server / Rank
boxsetauthentic.com mail.boxsetauthentic.com 0

WebForwards:
New Domain / Destination
cpanel.boxsetauthentic.com http://www.boxsetauthentic.com/cpanel
forums.boxsetauthentic.com http://boxsetauthentic.proboards21.com/
webmail.boxsetauthentic.com http://mail.boxsetauthentic.com/webmail

hope that helps

[tomf87]

zimv20 is right. However, they are not referred to as subdomains. Those are actually hosts. A subdomain would be something like corp.rohdeonlineXYZ.com. Then you could have mail.corp.rohdeonlineXYZ.com for handling mail for the corp subdomain. I know... splitting hairs, but that's how we all learn. :)