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From: bpo@odinn.duosystems.com (Bruce Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: adding a node
Date: 26 Feb 1996 13:40:01 GMT
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Dan Benjamin (dpb@magicnet.net) wrote:
: Hello!

: I have a class C and I'd like to have one of my ip's be seen as
: another "node".

: For example, the main server is frank.foo.com.  I want to set an ip up
: as jack.foo.com, even though there is no machine there.  I'd like this
: ip to be seen for mail, ftp, and http requests.

: ANy help would be much appreciated!!!!

: -Dan

What you really need is to change your /etc/sendmail.cf. Set up frank.foo.com
to handle mail for your domain. The one with FreeBSD uses a Cw line.

Then you need to have your DNS set up with CNAME entries (like aliases in
the hosts files) to point back to frank. e.g.,

jack	IN	CNAME	frank.foo.com.

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