From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Jun 4 5:37:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from zwitterion.humbug.org.au (suter.slip.cc.uq.edu.au [130.102.10.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23E9137B535 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 05:37:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from suter@zwitterion.humbug.org.au) Received: from localhost (suter@localhost) by zwitterion.humbug.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id WAA19132 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 22:37:03 +1000 Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 22:37:03 +1000 (EST) From: Mark Suter To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[2]: BIND doesn't want to accept all of my zonefiles.. In-Reply-To: <88266718360.20000604132142@buz.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key available from Keyservers or http://www.uq.edu.au/~suter/ iD8DBQE5Ok1s7EsZXfL+uzYRAkCrAJ919u0IAHIch4xXVAiNxWksm4XCbgCdE7kn PzRBymPika6grEkIyHUDX5I= =84BD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message