[UCIMC-Tech] point MX records to Google mail servers?

[Chris Ritzo]

On 09/03/2013 07:51 PM, Chris Ritzo wrote:
> On 09/03/2013 07:10 PM, Barry Isralewitz wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just to clarify on the below: I don't think I have the admin access to
>> do this myself for thebikeproject.org <http://thebikeproject.org>  (for
>> example, I don't have  login access to ns.chambana.net
>> <http://ns.chambana.net>).
>> Could someone with admin permissions edit the DNS zone file records for
>> for me?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Barry
>>
>>
>> On Sep 1, 2013, at 2:48 PM, Barry Isralewitz wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'd like to point the MX records for thebikeproject.org
>>> <http://thebikeproject.org/> to Google's mail servers (then will use a
>>> feature of Google Apps for Non-profits).
>>> I think we'd need to change the records on the chambana.net
>>> <http://chambana.net/> servers, not at my registrar 1and1, since my
>>> registrar's only involvement is to point  to chambana nameservers
>>> (ns.chambana.net <http://ns.chambana.net/> and ns2.chambana.net
>>> <http://ns2.chambana.net/>).  As far as I know, thebikeproject.org
>>> <http://thebikeproject.org/> is  currently not using mail at all
>>> on chambana.net <http://chambana.net/> servers, so no active service
>>> would be endangered. I'm pretty sure our chambana mailing lists
>>> (bikecoop, bikecoop-staff, bikecoop-announce) would not be affected at
>>> all --  but I don't know enough Mailman mailing list internals to be
>>> 100% positive; let me know if you think otherwise.
>>>  
>>>
>>> The MX values I'd like are at 
>>> "MX Record Values, Google Apps Documentation"
>>> http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=174125
>>> …except with TTL set to 86400, so:
>>>
>>> Name/Host/Alias	Time to Live (TTL)	Record Type	Value/Answer/Destination
>>> Blank or @	86400	MX	1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM <http://ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM/>
>>> Blank or @	86400	MX	5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM
>>> Blank or @	86400	MX	5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM
>>> Blank or @	86400	MX	10 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM
>>> <http://ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM/>
>>> Blank or @	86400	MX	10 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM
>>> <http://ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM/>
>>>
>>>
>>> Essential, says Google,  that ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM
>>> <http://ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM/> gets top priority.
>>>
>>> I may be  a little rusty here, let  me know if something is obviously
>>> wrong…
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Barry
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Barry Isralewitz
>>> Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group
>>> 3043 Beckman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>>> Office Phone: (217) 244-1612
>>> email: barryi at ks.uiuc.edu <mailto:barryi at ks.uiuc.edu>  
>>> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~barryi
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Barry Isralewitz
>> Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group
>> 3043 Beckman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>> Office Phone: (217) 244-1612
>> email: barryi at ks.uiuc.edu <mailto:barryi at ks.uiuc.edu>  
>> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~barryi
>>
>>
>>
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> 
> Hi Barry,
> I can take a look at making these changes. I do think there is potential
> for issues with lists, though I'm not sure. Since we aren't hosting
> email accounts for TBP (that I know about), I think it should be fine.
> 
> , you can also send mail now to support at tech.chambana.net to
> have these requests logged in our redmine ticket queue.
> 
> I'll get back to you after I've had a chance to enact these changes.
> 

Barry,
These changes have now been made to TBP's DNS record on chambana.net. It
may take a little bit for the change to propogate to all three of
chambana.net's DNS servers.

Let us know if you need additional changes made.

Best,
Chris R.