Thanks, Scott. I'm glad to know that I have it right and AOL is (as usual)
the issue.
Bob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Scott Perry
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 3:56 PM
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Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] AOL Update.
> I have many virtual hosts on our email server. All of the DNS zone
> records have A records that point to the host "mail" with the IP
> address of the mail server. So, a ping of the mail.domainname.com
> will come up with a IP address, but a ping -a of that IP address will
> come up with the main email host name, not the mail.domainname.com in
> the original ping.
That is a perfectly valid setup. AOL may have a problem with it, but it is
completely legitimate (and quite common).
> If AOL (and possibly others) is expecting that in the case above the
> IP given in the ping of the host will also give the same host name,
> how is that done with virtual email hosts on iMAIL? Have I set
> something up wrong?
You haven't set up anything wrong. Just something that AOL may not like.
If you want to "fix" it so that AOL can't complain, you need to have all the
MX records point to the domain name that is shown when you do the "ping -a".
Of course, this may cause other problems (mainly cosmetic). My advice is to
keep things the way they are, and tell anyone with AOL problems to complain
to AOL.
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-Scott
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