123-reg / changing hosting details

Just a quickie - I think 123-reg have changed their setup since I last
looked, and someone just asked me what to do - and i`m crap at this at
the best of times :-}

They`ve got hosting (www only afaik) from someone, and have been given
what I think are nameserver details (x2)

If they want to retain their current email forwarding, what do they need
to change (is this possible ?)

the nameservers ?
the nameservers and the A record ?

TIA :-}

Colin Wilson wrote:
> Just a quickie - I think 123-reg have changed their setup since I last
> looked, and someone just asked me what to do - and i`m crap at this at
> the best of times :-}
>
> They`ve got hosting (www only afaik) from someone, and have been given
> what I think are nameserver details (x2)
>
> If they want to retain their current email forwarding, what do they need
> to change (is this possible ?)
>
> the nameservers ?
> the nameservers and the A record ?

If they've supplied you with nameserver details, these are no good.
123-Reg will already be providing this for you. If you change name
servers you'll bugger up your mail forwarding unless you have that
reconfigured at the new place.

What you need from them is the IP address of the server hosting the
website. You should then create an appropriate A record pointing to that
IP address. Then, when a request for that address lands at your current
nameserver, it'll send back that IP.

Don't touch your MX record(s), it's these decide where your mail ends up.

> > They`ve got hosting (www only afaik) from someone, and have been given
> > what I think are nameserver details (x2)
> <snip>
> If they've supplied you with nameserver details, these are no good.
> 123-Reg will already be providing this for you. If you change name
> servers you'll bugger up your mail forwarding unless you have that
> reconfigured at the new place.
> What you need from them is the IP address of the server hosting the
> website. You should then create an appropriate A record pointing to that
> IP address. Then, when a request for that address lands at your current
> nameserver, it'll send back that IP.
> Don't touch your MX record(s), it's these decide where your mail ends up.

Many thanks - i`ll now have to relay this via text message :-}