From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jan 15 10:53:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from orion.psknet.com (mail.psknet.com [63.171.251.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 234F137B402 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:52:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 70658 invoked from network); 15 Jan 2001 18:52:54 -0000 Received: from arcadia.psknet.com (HELO arcadia) (63.171.251.7) by mail.psknet.com with SMTP; 15 Jan 2001 18:52:54 -0000 From: "Troy Settle" To: "Chris Cook" Cc: Subject: RE: sendmail queue Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:52:37 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <3A632F85.90C1F83@tcworks.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chris, Look again. 'mail' is a cname pointing to the host 'www'. The MX record is also pointed to the host 'www'. The CNAME in this case doesn't actually involve the MX records at all. -- Troy Settle Pulaski Networks 540.994.4254 It's always a long day, 86400 doesn't fit into a short ** -----Original Message----- ** From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG ** [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Chris Cook ** Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 12:13 PM ** To: Dirk Meyer ** Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG ** Subject: Re: sendmail queue ** ** ** I have had many people tell me that using a CNAME to point to a mail ** server is a very bad thing that will cause issues with some MTA's... can ** anyone explain to me why? (just saw a CNAME for a mail server in this ** example). ** ** Dirk Meyer wrote: ** > ** > IT must be published in your DNS zone, ** > here an example: ** > ** > www.some-domain.net. IN A 192.168.1.1 ** > ftp.some-domain.net. CNAME www.some-domain.net. ** > mail.some-domain.net. CNAME www.some-domain.net. <========== ** > ** > backup.some-other.net. IN A 192.168.2.1 ** > ** > some-domain.net. IN MX 10 www.some-domain.net. ** > some-domain.net. IN MX 20 backup.some-other.net. ** ** ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org ** with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message ** ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message