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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 18:50 +0100
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On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:20 AM Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
...
> The primary purpose of the actual hostname is for you to be able to
> identify *which* computer is having a problem.  E.g. if you receive an
> email from a machine identifying itself as "www.yourdomain" but you have
> three such web servers operating as a round robin, then you will have
> to put in some work to figure out which of the three it came from.
>
> But if the email comes from a machine which self-identifies as
> "www1.yourdomain", then you have a better idea where to fix the issue.

Thanks, Greg.

-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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