Mail server question

[Rush]

Okay..

I have this question which i can't seem to get an answer for.

My domain is hosted with a one company and i manage my email hosting from another on the same domain.

That is, ex: i have abcd.com hosted at dreamhost for example (by just changing the nameservers at the place where i registered the domain from), and have modified the MX entry(mail exchange) at dreamhost for this domain to another webhost.

Now if suppose dreamhost goes down, will i be able to access my emails ? as the server which hosts my emails is not down .

Anyone have any idea ?

 

[PolurNET]

No, it can still affect your email because your DNS records are still hosted with them. If you host your domain's DNS records at your registrar instead, that will be a better way since it is independent of your hosting account, so the MX records will still be working if something goes wrong

 

[dongan]

The best way to keep your MX records at the Registrar.in most cases, it would't fail.

 

[Rush]

Oh okay..

But now the problem is my domain is at Godaddy and i can only change the Zone records(MX record) if my domain is hosted with them, which it is obviously not.
So is there anyway i can do this ? Keep both emai and webhosting different ?

 

[fab]

Keep the NS at Godaddy, setup a MX record to your mail host, and setup a A record to your web host. That is.

 

[JB-Rob]

Keep the NS at Godaddy, setup a MX record to your mail host, and setup a A record to your web host. That is.

However wouldn't you still end up with the same problem should the mailserver then go down?

 

[fab]

If the mailserver goes down you can't receive mails surely. This setting is to separate webhost and mail host. You can set up backup mail server if you really want.

 

[Rush]

The A name record is for pointing the IP address and i have a shared hosting account so i can only use ns1,ns2.

Any other option left for me ?

 

[fab]

You can lookup the IP of your ns and set the A record, mate.

 

[Rush]

Did that, seems to be working now.... hope i am viewing the site and getting emails with the new settings and not from the old dns cache.

Anyway i can make out ? nwtools and other sites show the new settings in place but my isp might not have updated the dns cache.

Thanks guys, i think it should work now!