On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 11:42 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > Steve: > > 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 :-) > > Perhaps you can show some actual numbers from a representative > survey that supports your big mouth claims. > > Wietse
Perhaps you can do the same to support your 1980's view of systems administration? You need to get some help with that temper of yours. It's the handrail of the crippled mind.
