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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: multiple names
Date: 31 May 1996 17:26:00 GMT
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jsloan@LiveNet.Net (Jim Sloan) wrote:

> artbbs.com is not a FQDN, but you can force the issue with
> artbbs.com      IN      A       206.9.159.17

However, it's questionable whether one really wants to do this.  If
the only concern is to allow for mail addresses à la ``foo@artbbs.com'',
it's better to use:

artbbs.com.	IN	MX	10	parker

in the zone file instead.  (Note the trailing dot!)

Of course, neither of the mentioned solutions will make the sendmail
on parker immediately recognize mail for all the aliases.  You still
need to add Cw clauses to the parker.mc or sendmail.cf files.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)