Re: CNAME records (was: Re: dynamic DNS within a non-dynamic domain)

1998-03-11 Thread Remco van de Meent
On 9 Mar 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: : Note that AFAIK all SMTP mailers (well, sendmail at least) will rewrite the : addresses in the mail headers. That includes rewriting a CNAME pointer to : the canonical name it points to. : So even if you send out mail with the CNAME in the From:

Re: CNAME records (was: Re: dynamic DNS within a non-dynamic domain)

1998-03-11 Thread David Stern
On Mon, 09 Mar 1998 20:23:06 CST, Rich Puhek wrote: > The MX record (Mail eXchange) is on your DNS server. It's what points > incoming mail for "@foo.bar to the appropriate machine to handle > the mail. What's worked for me is the following: > > mail IN A 10.0.20.1 > IN

Re: CNAME records (was: Re: dynamic DNS within a non-dynamic domain)

1998-03-10 Thread Rich Puhek
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, David Stern wrote: > > > > The correct way to solve this is to not use CNAMEs but to just set > > up an extra A + MX record. Or perhaps just an MX record if all you're > > using it for is mail. > > I don't run sendmail, but what's going on sounds an awful lot like like > wh

Re: CNAME records (was: Re: dynamic DNS within a non-dynamic domain)

1998-03-10 Thread David Stern
On 09 Mar 1998 10:50:15 +0100, wrote: > Note that AFAIK all SMTP mailers (well, sendmail at least) will rewrite the > addresses in the mail headers. That includes rewriting a CNAME pointer to > the canonical name it points to. If this is what ails my smail, then the vast majority of domains have

Re: CNAME records (was: Re: dynamic DNS within a non-dynamic domain)

1998-03-09 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 9 Mar 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Note that AFAIK all SMTP mailers (well, sendmail at least) will rewrite the > addresses in the mail headers. That includes rewriting a CNAME pointer to > the canonical name it points to. > > So even if you send out mail with the CNAME in the From: h

Re: CNAME records (was: Re: dynamic DNS within a non-dynamic domain)

1998-03-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
Note that AFAIK all SMTP mailers (well, sendmail at least) will rewrite the addresses in the mail headers. That includes rewriting a CNAME pointer to the canonical name it points to. So even if you send out mail with the CNAME in the From: header field, the recipient mailer will rewrite it.. no w

Re: CNAME records (was: Re: dynamic DNS within a non-dynamic domain)

1998-03-09 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > Ok, I just telnetted to your port 25 and you are announcing as > > Cal011205.student.utwente.nl > > This means that smail is discovering the DNS name when it is trying to > find its own name. This can be changed by FORCING smail to use the > correct

Re: CNAME records (was: Re: dynamic DNS within a non-dynamic domain)

1998-03-07 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, George Bonser wrote: > DO you have > > visible_name=blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl > > In your config file? Yes. Remco -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: CNAME records (was: Re: dynamic DNS within a non-dynamic domain)

1998-03-07 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: [question about CNAME records and MTAs rewriting the From: header when the hostname is a CNAME] > One thing to do is to make sure that you have the following in your > own /etc/hosts file: > > 130.89.222.95 bl

CNAME records (was: Re: dynamic DNS within a non-dynamic domain)

1998-03-05 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
[posting this to debian-user because it doesn't belong in debian-devel] On 3 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on debian-devel: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I am using dynamic DNS on perens.debian.org, a laptop with a radio modem. > > It works _excellently_. > > From: Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTE