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From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To: sweeting@tm.net.my
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Subject: Re: how would you set up a mail hub ? possible with one IP ?
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On Sat, 8 Mar 1997 sweeting@tm.net.my wrote:
> Is there any reason NOT to do this ?

Nope, especially the part about replacing NT :)
>
> However, the mail hub (FBSDBox C) is posing a bit of a problem.
> If i am not mistaken, this means that the zone file for, say, Avirtual2.com is :
> 
> ; /etc/namedb/Avirtual2.zone :
> ; Data file of hostnames in this zone.
> ;
> Avirtual2.com.  IN      SOA     Areal.com. postmaster.Areal.com. (
>                         24      300     60     1209600    43200 )
> ;
> Avirtual2.com.           IN      NS              nameserver1.com.
>                                   IN      NS              nameserver2.com.
> Avirtual2.com.           IN     MX              10 mail.Avirtual2.com.
                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
NO, your MX record needs to point at the real host

> Avirtual2.com.           IN      A   202.184.153.99
> 202                             IN      CNAME   202.184.153.99.

??? I have *no* idea what the intent is here but it won't work
no matter what.  Remove it.

> www.Avirtual2.com.  IN  CNAME   Avirtual2.com.


> The virtual mail domains on the mailhub are not the problem but it looks
> like we will end up using 2 IP numbers for each domain.

Not necessary, not even desirable.

> is there any way to do this using just one IP number on the mailhub ?

See above.

Dan
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