Re: Another Crazy DNS Question... ;-)

1999-11-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
Art Lemasters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Does anyone here know how to do this with the most recent sendmail > in potato (8.9.3) to receive mail for both domain.com and machine.domain.com, > etc.? Make sure all the domains for which you wish to receive mail are defined in the 'w' (or is it

Re: Another Crazy DNS Question... ;-)

1999-11-04 Thread Art Lemasters
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 01:09:32PM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: > On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > > Yes, you can point A records from two domains to the same IP address. > > > > You can also use a CNAME record. I'm not sure when one approach would > > be preferred over the other.

Re: Another Crazy DNS Question... ;-)

1999-11-04 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > Yes, you can point A records from two domains to the same IP address. > > You can also use a CNAME record. I'm not sure when one approach would > be preferred over the other. The answer is simple: Use A records for everything and forget about CNAMEs. :

Re: Another Crazy DNS Question... ;-)

1999-11-04 Thread Robert Varga
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 12:01:29AM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: > > > > Yes, you can point A records from two domains to the same IP address. > > You can also use a CNAME record. I'm not sure when one approach would > be preferred over the other. Yo

Re: Another Crazy DNS Question... ;-)

1999-11-04 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 12:01:29AM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: > > > > Yes, you can point A records from two domains to the same IP address. > > You can also use a CNAME record. I'm not sure when one approach would > be preferred over the other. This is true however the r

Re: Another Crazy DNS Question... ;-)

1999-11-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 12:01:29AM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: > > Yes, you can point A records from two domains to the same IP address. You can also use a CNAME record. I'm not sure when one approach would be preferred over the other. You can also use virtual hosting to have the same machin

Re: Another Crazy DNS Question... ;-)

1999-11-04 Thread Robert Varga
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Art Lemasters wrote: > How can I set up two completely different FQDNs (two totally > different hostnames) on one box (e.g., my.domain.net & > alsomy.otherdomain.net) so that this machine accepts traffic > on my.domain.net while appearing to be alsomy.otherdomain.net > t

Re: Another Crazy DNS Question... ;-)

1999-11-04 Thread aphro
yeah that would work fine, point 1 domain at 1 ip, or point a million domains at 1 ip ..its all the same ..now if your doing it for web hosting, e.g. http://www.aphroland.org and http://yahoo.aphroland.org and http://comedy.aphroland.org are all the same ip (208.222.179.35) however they are all

Re: Another Crazy DNS Question... ;-)

1999-11-04 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Art Lemasters wrote: > How can I set up two completely different FQDNs (two totally > different hostnames) on one box (e.g., my.domain.net & Point both DNS entries at your IP address. You can only have your IP map to one of them in reverse DNS, though. If you absolutely