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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: esalkin on June 22, 2007, 07:56:07 PM

Title: Initial Setup - Domain Name Question
Post by: esalkin on June 22, 2007, 07:56:07 PM

I'm not a DNS guru so forgive me if these are silly questions :oops: but I did not find anything in the manuals or forum that matched my situation.

We have a hosted doman Domain.com for our customers.  I would like to setup a subdomain Internal.Domain.com as a VPN to link our 3 offices and 20+ remote users.  I would also like to host e-mail as Domain.com.  I do not want all Domain.com traffic to be sent to my office server.  I just want the MX records for Domain.com and the subdomain Internal.Domain.com (webmail via mail.internal... is fine).  Everything else should go to the web hosting service.

I know I can direct the email using an MX record and the subdomain using an ANAME to the onsite server.  My question is, should I setup the onsite server as Domain.com and add Internal.Domain.com or visa-versa?  Or am I totally off base?

Title: Re: Initial Setup - Domain Name Question
Post by: raem on June 22, 2007, 11:40:47 PM

deleted original post, misread question

Title: Initial Setup - Domain Name Question
Post by: Confucius on June 23, 2007, 12:23:21 AM

Using internal.domain.com doesn't even allow you to add domain.com anymore afaik. But based on this line of thinking I suggest to initiate domain.com and add internal.domain.com.
From there you can do your (re)directing.

I hope I did understand the question correctly  :)