Re: Multiple host names for a single server?

2019-01-07 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 4:11 PM Andy Smith wrote:> Hi Tom, > On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 11:42:28AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:24 AM john doe wrote: > > > Any reasons why you can't use 'cname' record? > > > > Um, you're right > > Though do note that the right hand side of

Re: Multiple host names for a single server?

2019-01-07 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Tom, On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 11:42:28AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:24 AM john doe wrote: > > Any reasons why you can't use 'cname' record? > > Um, you're right Though do note that the right hand side of MX and NS records should not point to a CNAME alias (RFC 2181

Re: Multiple host names for a single server?

2019-01-07 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 12:26 PM Kushal Kumaran wrote: > Tom Browder writes: > > On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:24 AM john doe wrote: > > ... > >> Any reasons why you can't use 'cname' record? > > > > Um, you're right, I should be able to use that now that ACME v2 lets > > us use wild cards. > >

Re: Multiple host names for a single server?

2019-01-07 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Tom Browder writes: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:24 AM john doe wrote: > ... >> Any reasons why you can't use 'cname' record? > > Um, you're right, I should be able to use that now that ACME v2 lets > us use wild cards. > Could you elaborate why the ability to create wildcard SSL certificates

Re: Multiple host names for a single server?

2019-01-07 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:33 AM Joe wrote: ... > In general you're right, it's just a matter of multiple A records. In > the case of a mail server, the A record used for mail must have a > complementary PTR record at your ISP, but this is not a matter of > whether your mail server works, but

Re: Multiple host names for a single server?

2019-01-07 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:24 AM john doe wrote: ... > Any reasons why you can't use 'cname' record? Um, you're right, I should be able to use that now that ACME v2 lets us use wild cards. Thanks, "John." -Tom

Re: Multiple host names for a single server?

2019-01-07 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:20 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: ... > The primary purpose of the actual hostname is for you to be able to > identify *which* computer is having a problem. E.g. if you receive an > email from a machine identifying itself as "www.yourdomain" but you have > three such web

Re: Multiple host names for a single server?

2019-01-07 Thread Thomas Pircher
Tom Browder wrote: > I know I can define them with individual A records (with the same IP) > with my domain host provider, but will that cause problems conflicting > with a single physical hostname of, say, "pluto.example2.net"? Depends on the service. For SMTP, some servers check that results of

Re: Multiple host names for a single server?

2019-01-07 Thread Joe
On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 10:13:03 -0600 Tom Browder wrote: > I would like to use a single server for multiple remote services > including mail, bind dns, OpenStreep tiles, etcs., all with different > subdomain names but sharing the same server and IP. For example: > > mail.example.com >

Re: Multiple host names for a single server?

2019-01-07 Thread john doe
On 1/7/2019 5:13 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > I would like to use a single server for multiple remote services > including mail, bind dns, OpenStreep tiles, etcs., all with different > subdomain names but sharing the same server and IP. For example: > > mail.example.com > ns1.example.com >

Re: Multiple host names for a single server?

2019-01-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 10:13:03AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > I would like to use a single server for multiple remote services > including mail, bind dns, OpenStreep tiles, etcs., all with different > subdomain names but sharing the same server and IP. For example: > > mail.example.com >

Multiple host names for a single server?

2019-01-07 Thread Tom Browder
I would like to use a single server for multiple remote services including mail, bind dns, OpenStreep tiles, etcs., all with different subdomain names but sharing the same server and IP. For example: mail.example.com ns1.example.com tiles.example.com ... I know I can define them with