Comments on: What you need to get started

By: PJ

PJ — Tue, 29 May 2007 10:09:29 +0000

‘A’ & ‘MX’ records are type of records to describe Addresses and Mail eXchanges in a DNS server. For example, when you tell you browser to browse to switch.richard5.net your browser will query the richard5.net DNS server for the ‘A’ record which is associated with switch. The DNS server will respond with an ip address. The ‘MX’ record works in a similar fashion but then for email. So when you send an email to richard5@richard5.net your email application will ask the richard5.net DNS server for the mail exchange (MX) record for the richard5.net domain. Again the DNS server will respond with an ip address.

By: jeff

jeff — Tue, 22 May 2007 23:41:29 +0000

Thanks for your work. I am a web designer (emphasis on designer) and know a basic amount of coding to get by, but not too familiar with Terminal, Unix, etc. I am curious about the “A record” and “MX records”. What file type are they and where do they go? (I’m hoping I’m asking a question that makes sense).

By: Richard5

Richard5 — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 05:27:29 +0000

Just the normal workstation version of OS X Tiger will do.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:54:30 +0000

Hello, this is a good document for people want to make their mac mini be a web server. and i’ll try it in these day. in this box, i have to install mac osx server or just mac osx tiger ? thank you very much.