[26659] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Selection of Appropriate Local SMTP Relay
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Shields)
Tue Jan 11 13:58:22 2000
To: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@iMach.com>
Cc: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>, Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz>,
nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael Shields <shields@msrl.com>
Date: 11 Jan 2000 14:48:07 +0000
In-Reply-To: "Forrest W. Christian"'s message of "Mon, 10 Jan 2000 22:42:04 -0700 (MST)"
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In article <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000110222525.438A-100000@workhorse.iMach.com>,
"Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@iMach.com> wrote:
> I'm going to make a pitch for the IP-address based method.
>
> Specifically, if you have a set of well known IP addresses for common
> services, thus something like:
>
> 223.255.255.1 - Primary DNS
> 223.255.255.2 - Secondary DNS
> 223.255.255.3 - SMTP Mail
> 223.255.255.4 - Time Server
Why did you choose to have exactly 2 DNS servers and exactly 1 SMTP
and "time" server?
--
Shields.
