>From an email I recieved privately, from someone who knows DNS better than I do (hi, Niels), I've learnt that what I wrote is not accurate. The CNAME is actually sufficient, as long as vger continues to treat <linux-m...@lists.linux-m68k.org> as an alias for <linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org>
Finn On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, I wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:32, Finn Thain <fth...@telegraphics.com.au> > > wrote: > > > > > > Indeed, the MAINTAINERS file says that the list for arch/m68k/mac/ is > > > linux-m...@lists.linux-m68k.org. Is this alias still working? Perhaps > > > it should be changed to linux-m...@vger.kernel.org? > > > > The alias should work: > > > > lists.linux-m68k.org. 86400 IN CNAME vger.kernel.org. > > It works not because of the CNAME record, but because of the MX record: > > $ dig +short mx lists.linux-m68k.org > vger.kernel.org. > 10 vger.kernel.org. > 999 bl-ckh-le.kernel.org. > $ dig +short mx vger.kernel.org > 10 vger.kernel.org. > 999 bl-ckh-le.kernel.org. > > The CNAME means that http://lists.linux-m68k.org/ takes you to vger, and > this only works because the apache vhost on vger is willing to answer to > "lists.linux-m68k.org" as well as "vger.kernel.org"... > > Finn > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
