On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 19:20 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> A machine name is required for several email-related Internet standards.
No problem with this;
> Besides, having all DNS names resolve to the same box is not normal usage.
>
This is nothing more than an opinion as far as I can tell. It may have
once had some foundation but it's fair to say that it is perfectly
reasonable with current hardware to have a machine that acts as a web
server, ftp server, and mail server. Naturally there will be some
duplicate in DNS resolution to resolve these. In fact, if you start load
balancing real servers and services with dedicated load balancers
capable of multiple services, you'll find most of the DNS entries will
point to the same IP. Perhaps this makes people like me 'not normal'
then. Thanks :-)
