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Re: Multiple host names for a single server?

From Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Multiple host names for a single server?
Date 2019-01-07 23:20 +0100
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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 §10.3)¹. Your examples included
"mail" and "ns1" which often feature in MX and NS records.

Cheers,
Andy

¹ Thought they often end up working anyway, contrary to RFCs.

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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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