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Re: Multiple host names for a single server?

From Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Multiple host names for a single server?
Date 2019-01-07 23:40 +0100
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On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 4:11 PM Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:> Hi Tom,
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 11:42:28AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:24 AM john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> wrote:
> > > Any reasons why you can't use 'cname' record?
> >
> > Um, you're right
>
> Though do note that the right hand side of MX and NS records should
> not point to a CNAME alias (RFC 2181 ง10.3)น. Your examples included
> "mail" and "ns1" which often feature in MX and NS records.
...
> น Thought they often end up working anyway, contrary to RFCs.

Thanks, Andy. This has always been a confusing area for me.  When I
get a "practice" mail and dns setup ready I will check back here with
specifics and see what all respondents think.

Best regards,

-Tom

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Multiple host names for a single server? Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2019-01-07 17:20 +0100
  Re: Multiple host names for a single server? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-01-07 17:30 +0100
    Re: Multiple host names for a single server? Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2019-01-07 18:50 +0100
  Re: Multiple host names for a single server? john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2019-01-07 17:30 +0100
    Re: Multiple host names for a single server? Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2019-01-07 18:50 +0100
      Re: Multiple host names for a single server? Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> - 2019-01-07 19:30 +0100
        Re: Multiple host names for a single server? Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2019-01-07 22:20 +0100
      Re: Multiple host names for a single server? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2019-01-07 23:20 +0100
        Re: Multiple host names for a single server? Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2019-01-07 23:40 +0100
  Re: Multiple host names for a single server? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-01-07 17:40 +0100
    Re: Multiple host names for a single server? Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2019-01-07 18:50 +0100
  Re: Multiple host names for a single server? Thomas Pircher <thp+debian@p5r.uk> - 2019-01-07 18:00 +0100

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