Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 09:45:34 +1100 (EST) From: "John Saunders" <john.saunders@nlc.net.au> To: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> Cc: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com>, phil grainger <thi226@iname.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help wanted! Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990202094159.7149B-100000@nhj.nlc.net.au> In-Reply-To: <199902011443.GAA08735@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>
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On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Don Lewis wrote:
> Since the name that the the MX record points to is local to your DNS
> zone, it's easier to just point the MX at the actual host that's handling
> incoming SMTP. Instead of:
>
> domain.com.au. IN MX 0 mail.domain.com.au.
> mail.domain.com.au. IN A 192.1.1.1
> foo-host.domain.com.au. IN A 192.1.1.1
>
> just do:
>
> domain.com.au. IN MX 0 foo-host.domain.com.au.
> foo-host.domain.com.au. IN A 192.1.1.1
I do what you describe and configure the MX records with the real
hostname. However I do have a mail.domain.com.au CNAME (actually at the
moment it's an A record for backwards compatibility) to allow customers to
point their "SMTP Server" configuration at something I can move around.
The parent domain has MX records listing the actual hosts.
Cheers.
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