On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 12:41:57PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
> Peter Faulks wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 14:57:58 +1000, Graeme Robinson wrote:
> >
> > >if you tell us what mailserver software you are using someone here might be
> > >able to help you configure it.
> >
> > I think my first problem is to configure bind properly.
> >
> > I can't work out what should be 'A' records and what should be 'CNAME' records.
>
> In my named.woa for the woa.com.au domain, I have
>
> eagle A 192.168.27.1
> dns CNAME eagle
> ns CNAME eagle
> nameserver CNAME eagle
None of those three are good ideas. It means that machines attempting a lookup
perform the opertation twice. Once to get a reference (CNAME) and once again
to get eagle's address.
This causes even more problems when MX records are CNAME'd.
On your private network though it makes little difference the extra time
and traffic are marginal. On public networks it makes a big difference though.
Anand
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