Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:51:24 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] Spare mailservers Message-ID: <20021121165124.GA71418@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20021121172820.V20479-100000@voo.doo.net> References: <20021121172820.V20479-100000@voo.doo.net>
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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
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