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Re: SERVER NAMES

  • From: Patrick Greenwell
  • Date: Thu Feb 03 02:17:01 2000 
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 [email protected] wrote:

> 
> OK... Now it's crossed into the arena of my pet peeves, so I'll vent my
> opinion...
> 
> 
> I believe that most machines should have at least two names...
> 
> 	mx1 mx2 mx3... should be assigned as CNAME records to the
> 			actual machine name (see below) that the
> 			machine currently performing that function
> 			is known by.

Hmmmm... MX records are CNAMES? Doesn't that cause problems with a certain
popular MTA?


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                               Patrick Greenwell                          
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