DNS

[intel233]

I had to remove DNS and then reinstall ( I went from 192.168.10.XXX to 192.168.1.XXX). Do I need to put in a MX record in DNS? I should have looked in DNS before I removed it but I do not remember if when I installed Exchange it added anything to DNS.
In DNS I added
Name type data timestamp
Same as parent MX [10]a1pmail.XXX.com
Do I need that?
TIA

 

[58sniper]

Don't know why you removed DNS to do that.....

If your DNS is public facing, then you'd need an MX record. If not, you don't need an MX record in your internal DNS.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[intel233]

When I tried to change the IP scheme everything in DNS was wrong and caused me a lot of issues that is why I removed it, changed the IP of the server then reinstalled DNS.

 

[58sniper]

A simple commmand from each server would have updated the records. The shotgun approach isn't going to serve you very well in the future.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[intel233]

what command? Last time I had to change Ip DNS got completely messed up. Tried a reload of the zone. Couldn't ping anything so removing DNS and changing the IP scheme doesn't seem shotgun to me.

 

[58sniper]

ipconfig /registerdns
will update all relevant entries in DNS for the machine it's run on. Including Domain Controllers.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/