Wietse Venema:
> > Is it even neccessary to have a hostname at all since the days of having s
> >-eperate machines for seperate daemons are behind us for most websites? Afte
> >-r all, mail.example1.com, www.example1.com, pop3.example1.com,... are all th
> >-e same machine these days.
>
> A machine name is required for several email-related Internet standards.
> Besides, having all DNS names resolve to the same box is not normal usage.
I'll post some numbers today, based on domain names found in open
mailing lists.
Wietse
