On 10/23/2017 11:55 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: > [email protected]: >> On 10/21/2017 11:25 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: >>> [email protected]: >>>> How does DNS know where mail.example1.com is? Should I set it in >>>> my registrar, in the mail system, in Apache as a virtual domain, >>>> or where? >>> Normally, someone pays a registrar, so that the payer can configure >>> the names of DNS servers that hold DNS records for example1.com. >>> >>> Wietse >> Understand, I do have a registrar for my domains, but there I have >> always set ns1.{hoster}.com and ns2.{hoster}.com as the DNS servers.? >> (I've always used shared hosting in the past, but now am making my first >> hosting cloud instance) > In addition to the NS records that name these DNS servers, those > servers need to contain records for your domain. You can use the > 'dig' tool to verify that: > > dig ns example1.com. @8.8.8.8 > dig mx example.com. @8.8.8.8 > > and so on. This uses Google DNS to show what a remote client would get. > > Wietse Yes this works. But all my questions have disappeared.
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