[26981] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SERVER NAMES
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Greenwell)
Thu Feb 3 02:15:19 2000
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 23:13:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>
To: owen@exodus.net
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, steve@mwis.net,
james@darkblue.net, nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 owen@exodus.net wrote:
>
> OK... Now it's crossed into the arena of my pet peeves, so I'll vent my
> opinion...
>
>
> I believe that most machines should have at least two names...
>
> mx1 mx2 mx3... should be assigned as CNAME records to the
> actual machine name (see below) that the
> machine currently performing that function
> is known by.
Hmmmm... MX records are CNAMES? Doesn't that cause problems with a certain
popular MTA?
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Patrick Greenwell
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