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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
