On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 16:21, Alan Brown wrote: > It's a bit late now, but this is a really good reason to setup NS > records for pop3.x.y and smtp.x.y separate from the actual machine > names.
And in the long run, wouldn't it be nice if all these services used SRV records to find their servers? I've been installing the records just in case someone starts adding support to read them in the clients. For instance, I have _pop3._tcp records for my servers. BTW, you don't have to use CNAME's. You can use A records instead, and this has the benefit of giving you some load-balancing if it's a service that's not tied to a specific server or address. You could also use this to balance load across two NIC's on the same server.
