Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 22:37:03 +1000 (EST) From: Mark Suter <suter@zwitterion.humbug.org.au> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[2]: BIND doesn't want to accept all of my zonefiles.. Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006042226150.18745-100000@zwitterion.humbug.org.au> In-Reply-To: <88266718360.20000604132142@buz.ch>
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Gabriel,
> But anyway, I think using
> IN MX 10 mail-alpha
> * IN MX 10 web-alpha
> mail IN CNAME mail-alpha
> should save me from setting hardcoded A records in the zonefiles of
> the virtualdomains.
Do you really want "does-not-exist.example.com" to return your MX
records?
Wildcard MX records are just a bad idea, plain and simple. They
don't work the way you'd expect, and virtually no one gets them
right. Avoid them at all costs.
http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section4.html#4.1
Yours sincerely,
- -- Mark John Suter | I know that you believe you understand
suter@humbug.org.au | what you think I said, but I am not sure
GPG key id F2FEBB36 | you realise that what you heard is not
Ph: +61 4 1126 2316 | what I meant. anonymous
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