Christian T. Steigies dixit: >about CNAME. How are your buildds handling email, you have no problems like >that (static IPs, proper MX records?)?
The buildd has *no* external IP at all, but an MX RR pointing to a server with static IP (as a general rule, any server listed in any MX RR *SHOULD NOT* have a dynamic IP anyway): tg@blau:~ $ host -va ara5.mirbsd.org Query about ara5.mirbsd.org for record types ANY Trying ara5.mirbsd.org ... Query done, 1 answer, status: no error The following answer is not authoritative: ara5.mirbsd.org 51668 IN MX 10 zigo.mirbsd.org tg@blau:~ $ host -va zigo.mirbsd.org Query about zigo.mirbsd.org for record types ANY Trying zigo.mirbsd.org ... Query done, 1 answer, status: no error The following answer is not authoritative: zigo.mirbsd.org 51661 IN A 87.98.215.239 I do not use *any* CNAME RRs in my DNS. Didn’t even do that when my home ADSL had a dynamic IP. (I just ran my own dyndns solution, using sixxs’ heartbeat protocol, on my dedicated server.) bye, //mirabilos -- Sometimes they [people] care too much: pretty printers [and syntax highligh- ting, d.A.] mechanically produce pretty output that accentuates irrelevant detail in the program, which is as sensible as putting all the prepositions in English text in bold font. -- Rob Pike in "Notes on Programming in C"
