who hosts my mx records? "James" <fake[ at ]email.com> 4/17/2007 7:53:43 PM DNS is not my thing, so sorry for the newb question our MX records are setup properly for our domain, but we will be changing them soon, and I have no idea who hosts our MX records. I know they point to frontbridge, but not sure who set this up for us. Is there anyway to lookup who hosts them for us?

Re: who hosts my mx records? "Herb Martin" <news[ at ]learnquick.com> 4/17/2007 8:24:01 PM "James" <fake[ at ]email.com> wrote in message news:%23Q6CCpSgHHA.4916[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > DNS is not my thing, so sorry for the newb question We all had to learn at some time. > our MX records are setup properly for our domain, but we will be changing > them soon, and I have no idea who hosts our MX records. Whoever hosts the "rest of your ZONE" -- presumably for you public domain name. > I know they point to frontbridge, but not sure who set this up for us. > Is there anyway to lookup who hosts them for us? Sure if you tell us your domain name -- you just lookup the SOA record for it and that will tell you the names of the DNS servers and (should) give the email address of the responsible person. Below I look up my own domain's SOA record: C:\>nslookup -q=soa learnquick.com 68.178.144.167 learnquick.com primary name server = www.learnquick.com responsible mail addr = herbm.learnquick.com .....(bunch more stuff about zone) Primary name server tells you where the zone is physically stored, and the "responsible mail addr" is MY Email addres (in this case): herbm.learnquick.com BUT you must know a convention; the first DOT needs to be replaced by an [ at ] sign to make it a real email address (this is done because [ at ] signs have a special meaning in DNS zone files.) -- Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP http://www.LearnQuick.Com (phone on web site)

Re: who hosts my mx records? "James" <fake[ at ]email.com> 4/17/2007 10:18:34 PM Thanks for the quick and useful reply "Herb Martin" <news[ at ]learnquick.com> wrote in message news:uJlqX5SgHHA.392[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > > "James" <fake[ at ]email.com> wrote in message > news:%23Q6CCpSgHHA.4916[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> DNS is not my thing, so sorry for the newb question > > We all had to learn at some time. > >> our MX records are setup properly for our domain, but we will be changing >> them soon, and I have no idea who hosts our MX records. > > Whoever hosts the "rest of your ZONE" -- presumably for you public domain > name. > > >> I know they point to frontbridge, but not sure who set this up for us. >> Is there anyway to lookup who hosts them for us? > > Sure if you tell us your domain name -- you just lookup the SOA > record for it and that will tell you the names of the DNS servers > and (should) give the email address of the responsible person. > > Below I look up my own domain's SOA record: > > C:\>nslookup -q=soa learnquick.com 68.178.144.167 > > learnquick.com > primary name server = www.learnquick.com > responsible mail addr = herbm.learnquick.com > ....(bunch more stuff about zone) > > Primary name server tells you where the zone is physically stored, > and the "responsible mail addr" is MY Email addres (in this case): > > herbm.learnquick.com > > BUT you must know a convention; the first DOT needs to be replaced > by an [ at ] sign to make it a real email address (this is done because [ at ] > signs have a special meaning in DNS zone files.) > > > -- > Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP > http://www.LearnQuick.Com > (phone on web site) >