specifying a port number?

[Kevin Darcy]

Lee Howard wrote:

> Would the following entry work in a domain file?
>
> webmail IN      CNAME   server.domain.com:6789

No. The colon character isn't legal in that context.

> The webmail package requires access by specifying a port number, and I'd
> like users to be able to access the webmail system by accessing
> http://webmail.domain.com
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

The SRV record allows one to specify a port in addition to a hostname
providing the requested service. But to my knowledge no web clients are
SRV-aware, so it wouldn't do you any good to create one.

Why not just set up "webmail" as a web virtual host which does nothing but
redirect to http://server.domain.domain:6789?


- Kevin