On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 22:53 -0700, Joe Sloan wrote: > Steve wrote: > > Personally, I would not have a M$ box for anything other than charity. > > That is to allow those nice far eastern people access to my resources to > > send UCE. > > Mind you, most of them buckle under the load.... > > > > I'm with you there... > > > Because DNS requires an MX entry for a mail server and a A record for > > the web server. Don't shoot the messenger - I'm not responsible for > > DNS ! These will often be pointing to the same host but be externally > > seen as different entities. An example would be CNAMES. A machine can > > have an unlimited number of CNAME aliases in DNS, but a separate CNAME > > record must be in the database for each alias. > > > > True, but they could technically all be the same name - let's say you > have one box and it's mydomain.com. Your dns records might look like this: > > IN A 1.2.3.4 > IN NS mydomain.com. > IN MX 10 mydomain.com > > You might also want to add: > > IN CNAME www.mydomain.com mydomain.com > > But nobody says you absolutely must have smtp.mydomain.com or > mail.mydomain.com or ns.mydomain.com or pop3.mydomain.com > > Joe I agree. But you would still need to list an MX record if you were expecting mail traffic and probably a CNAME for the www to the A record. It would not be 'not normal' for these to resolve to the same host. There is nothing wrong with doing so if it fits your needs. There may be arguments as to scaling and redundancy, but that is a different arena.
To be called a 'big mouth' for pointing it out - or even a 'hobbyist' amuses me when you consider that Postfix is a Open Source and written by Hobbyists. I appreciate it's the guys baby - but to descend to abuse is really unnecessary. > > > >
