Postini launches Private Outbound DNS support for Domino 8.5
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Since this works back to Domino 6, I was interested to see what Postini was offering with the Private Outbound DNS.
Change DNS Settings in Domino. IBM Lotus Domino server will use the DNS server listed in notes.ini to send mail. The Domino server will contact the Private DNS Server and route mail to Outbound Services. Since this method affects only IBM Lotus Domino, and requires no changes to the underlying operating system, this is the recommended method to use Private Outbound DNS.
So digging in, you set a reinjection using the Domino server configuration document for your servers that route mail in any way. You need to register your IP address with the Postini side before setting up the Private Outbound DNS, which cannot use DNS names. Only IP addresses are allowed.
You are then basically changing the notes.ini for the server to set the DNS servers that the server will use. Domino will obey the notes.ini DNS server setting before the OS specified one.
Why would you do this? If you want all mail filtered, protected, scanned and controlled this is an excellent option. However it is a major change to your infrastructure and also native NRPC routing. I would be careful before implementing this with any provider, not just Postini
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On Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 by Chris Miller
