From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jul 25 23:26:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA17002 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 23:26:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.triax.com (postoffice@mail.triax.com [206.58.96.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA16995 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 23:26:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joer@triax.com) Received: from paranoia ([206.58.99.200]) by mail.triax.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 release (PO203-101c) ID# 0-41958U5000L500S0) with SMTP id AAA7649; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 23:21:28 -0700 Message-ID: <00a301bdb85f$2facce60$c8633ace@paranoia> From: "Joe Read" To: , "Rico Pajarola" Subject: Re: MX CNAME Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 23:32:38 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >CNAMEs are for human convenience only, they are for your users >who don't want to type an un-intuitive or complicated canonical >hostname, but for *you* (the admin) it shouldn't be a problem to point >the MX (or any other record) directly to the A record that the CNAME >points to. There should never be any other records pointing to a >CNAME, because it would just make you do more (or longer) >queries. This RFC rule is to allow the clients to just use simple >queries. Until you have a customer paying you about $2000/mo demand you change it so that any sort of nslookup points only to their domain, not even a simple little mx record. Question: Can you point an MX directly to an ip? i.e.: ... MX 5 206.58.96.4 Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message