From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 21 8:51:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 430C737B401 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:51:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc1-cdif2-5-cust47.cdf.cable.ntl.com [81.101.150.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A944043E6E for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:51:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18EuY0-000Iah-00; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:51:24 +0000 Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:51:24 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: Marc Schneiders Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] Spare mailservers Message-ID: <20021121165124.GA71418@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Marc Schneiders , questions@freebsd.org References: <20021121172820.V20479-100000@voo.doo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021121172820.V20479-100000@voo.doo.net> X-message-flag: All your linuxconf-configured redhat are belong to us. X-message-flag-attribution: suresh, sdm. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:35:19PM +0100, Marc Schneiders wrote: > What is there against the following solution: > > We are now adding a second mailserver (20 MX) to our configuration, > which will forward mail to the main mailserver (10 MX) through > mailertable. A third one will be added as soon as we grow as we now > expect. To avoid having to edit all the DNS zones again then, could we > not now do this already: > > MX 10 mail.domain.com. > MX 20 mail2.domain.com. > MX 30 mail3.domain.com. > > And put in the domain.com zone: > > mail 200.200.200.20 > mail2 200.200.200.21 > mail3 200.200.200.21 > > So mail3 is simply another name for mail2 for the time being. (Not > a CNAME record!) This will be fine. Another option would be to use the $INCLUDE statement in your zone files, and make your life easier in the long run too. Ceri -- By my ancestors, your destruction has come! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message