virtual domains and zone files
Andrew
andrew at arda.homeunix.net
Mon Dec 1 03:58:44 UTC 2003
Danny Mayer wrote:
>
> Since you have no A records at all, neither the NS nor the MX records
> are usable. If you are going to deliver mail to arda.homelinux.net you need
> an A record for at least callisto.
I do have A records for io, callisto, and europa. They live in the
arda.homeunix.net zone file.
>BIND 9 should complain about these records.
> I don't see how you could deliver mail to that address unless it's all local to
> that machine or you have host records that you are not telling us about.
No records to speak of in my /etc/hosts files. And I can definitely
deliver mail to addresses using the arda.homelinux.net domain, I just
did it from three of my machines.
> You should have A records for io, europa and callisto.
See above.
> I'm not sure why you are setting the origin. The file would look much
> simpler you
Looks like this sentence got cut short. Too bad because it looks like
this is where you were about to answer my question.
>
> There's no such thing as a virtual domain. Do you mean private, non-registered?
Virtual domain is common parlance when talking about mail servers. A lot
of discussion takes place about them on the qmail and courier mailing
lists. :)
Andrew
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