It never hurts to have the hosts entry. My machine is not named
mail either. Never has been. No, the local machine should not
have to do a lookup for the local domain.
Dusty
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrews, Bryan (COX-Atlanta) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 8:00 AM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Reply to?
> That is what I was thinking... but why would I need to save a lookup? Any
> mail destined to our domain (from our domain) would never even query
dns...
> would it?
>
> OK but lastly... since my machine name is not 'mail', do I need a host
entry
> for mail.mydomain.com? I guess it could not hurt huh?
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