Lindsay Haisley writes: > It's not unusual at all. From the point of view of DNS, there's no > difference between a virtual domain and a real one.
Actually, that's not true. In the context of Mailman, the most important one is that an MX record must point to a real domain (ie, one with an A record) and you probably even want that A record to be invertible (ie, the PTR for that IP address points back to the same domain). A virtual domain also is not 100% reliable for SSL/TLS services because basic TLS does its certificate exchange at a level "below" the DNS, so deciding which virtual domain's certificate to present is problematic (there is an extension to the protocol which fixes this, but it's not 100% implemented, in particular IE on XP still can't do it according to Wikipedia, which will kill you in Japan where about 1/3 of business systems are still XP-based). This isn't particularly relevant to people who are just plain users of the system, and I imagine to you it's all second-nature now, but the OP sounds like he's a bit into do-it-yourself so he should be aware of the limitations on doing tricky stuff based on a virtual domain. Steve ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
