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From: Chris Cook <ccook@tcworks.net>
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To: Troy Settle <troy@psknet.com>
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Subject: Re: sendmail queue
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Right... my bad.  Thanks to all for the answers btw.

/Chris

Troy Settle wrote:
> 
> 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.


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