Re: MX question related to diff. A and MX record

1999-11-26 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 12:21:23AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > the same IP-address, with the consequence, that the reverse-mapping > 1.2.3.4 PTR will point to just one of the n hosts. What's the general > opinion on how "legal" this is? This is perfectly legal. But you can also 4 IN

Re: MX question related to diff. A and MX record

1999-11-26 Thread claudio . nieder
Hi, > Create a file called e.g. "virtualdomains": > ... > zone "virtual1.com" in { type master; file "virtualdomains"; } Nice solution for not having to have n instances of the same stuff. One thing still bothers me. This gets me n hosts with an A mapping to the same IP-address, with the cons

Re: MX question related to diff. A and MX record

1999-11-26 Thread claudio . nieder
Hi, > > Is there any other solution which avoid mapping of multiple domains to > > the same IP-address and is legal? > No. Well, yes, map multiple domains each to its own IP address. Given you have enough IP-addresses. When is the big switch to IPv6 gonna take place ?

Re: MX question related to diff. A and MX record

1999-11-26 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 02:08:48AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there any other solution which avoid mapping of multiple domains to > the same IP-address and is legal? If these are kinda "minimal" domains and they're all identical, you can do something like this: (this assumes you are usi

Re: MX question related to diff. A and MX record

1999-11-25 Thread Russell Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Is there any other solution which avoid mapping of multiple domains to > the same IP-address and is legal? No. Well, yes, map multiple domains each to its own IP address. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free soft

Re: MX question related to diff. A and MX record

1999-11-25 Thread claudio . nieder
Hi, > ... > mail and web services for a number of virtual domains. Thus for each > ss that and is nevertheless correct?uch domain I have > ... I'm not only too dumb to understand DNS, but also to use an editor. This should say > ... > mail and web services for a number of virtual domains. Th

Re: MX question related to diff. A and MX record

1999-11-25 Thread claudio . nieder
Hi, > > domain.com MX 25 smtp.domain.com > > domain.com CNAME www.domain.com > a CNAME entry may have no other ressource records or I'll get errors That interests me too. Let's say I've got server.xy.ch which provides mail and web services for a number of virtual domains. Thus for each ss that

Re: MX question related to diff. A and MX record

1999-11-25 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 08:25:12PM +, Florian G. Pflug wrote: > using: > domain.com MX 25 smtp.domain.com > domain.com CNAME www.domain.com Repeat this a 100 times: a CNAME entry may have no other ressource records or I'll get errors "has CNAME and other data (invalid)" which I can

Re: MX question related to diff. A and MX record

1999-11-25 Thread Florian G. Pflug
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:53:26AM -0500, Sam wrote: > On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Einar Bordewich wrote: > > > Does a mailserver always look at the MX record, and not the A record > > for a domain? > > Yes. I never had troubles with A Records pointing to something different then MX-Records. But I had

Re: MX question related to diff. A and MX record

1999-11-22 Thread Russell Nelson
Einar Bordewich writes: > : > Back a few years, I know we had a problem related to mail going to the > : > webserver instead the mailserver, when the domain was set up with an A > : > record that was different than the IP address of the hostname pointed > : > to by MX. Does this still count, o

Re: MX question related to diff. A and MX record

1999-11-22 Thread Einar Bordewich
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MX question related to diff. A and MX record

1999-11-22 Thread Einar Bordewich
Does a mailserver always look at the MX record, and not the A record for a domain? Back a few years, I know we had a problem related to mail going to the webserver instead the mailserver, when the domain was set up with an A record that was different than the IP address of the hostname pointed t