>I just got off the phone with a Sendmail dude at another ISP where a >customer will continue hosting DNS and wants to host email with us.
come on, Jon, ya gotta give us harder problems than this. >The other guy wanted our hostname for that machine. jerk > However I reccomended just >creating essentially an alias by entering a mail A record in his DNS that >pointed to our ip address and using mail.domain.com for his MX record. In his DNS for yourcustomer.com zone file: yourcustomer.com. MX 10 mx1.ImailOverAtJonsPlace.com ... is all it takes. > Well then he started lecturing me on RFC's and whatnot. I hope you didn't take notes. Screw your CNAME suggestion, the guy's sufficiently confused already. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
