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Date:      Sat, 30 Sep 2000 13:23:11 +0400
From:      "Artem Koutchine" <matrix@ipform.ru>
To:        "Jim Weeks" <jim@siteplus.net>
Cc:        "Andy Wolf" <Andy.Wolf@nextra.de>, "James Wyatt" <jwyatt@rwsystems.net>, "Jan Knepper" <jan@digitaldaemon.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: DNS: having domain1.com and domain1.net point to the same IP.
Message-ID:  <00dc01c02ac4$81bedde0$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009290850070.335-100000@veager.siteplus.net>

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From: "Jim Weeks" <jim@siteplus.net>>
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Artem Koutchine wrote:
>
> > From: "Jim Weeks" <jim@siteplus.net>
> > >
> > > On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Andy Wolf wrote:
> > >
> > > > We use two A records now and therefor accept redundancy. The reverse
> > lookup
> > > > of course can only point to one of the labels.
> > >
> > > The general consensus throughout the industry seems to be that C names
are
> > > evil.
> > >
> > > I have never been bitten by just using A names.
> > >
> >
> > I have. Revers lookup might fail and some secure smtp server and other
> > daemons
> > do not allow access if reverse lookup failes. For example:
>
> What type of smtp setup would fail because the reverse lookup name did not
> match that of the virtual domain?
>
> Do you have an example of a daemon that would choke?
>

That actually depends on the setup and can be achived in almost any
network active daemon. I have had problems with SENDMAIL!!!



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