[CentOS] DNS wizard

Fri Dec 30 00:33:06 UTC 2005
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 18:17, Sam Drinkard wrote:

> > @       A       216.104.158.222
> > vortex  A       216.104.158.222
> > @       MX      10 wa4phy.net.  ;Primary Mail Exchanger
> >          MX      20 smtp7.bagger.usbn.net. ;Secondary MX
> > www     CNAME   wa4phy.net.
> > ftp     CNAME   wa4phy.net.

> Thanks Maze.. pretty much what I finally wound up with.  Guess things
> tend to change over time and I don't try to keep up with everything
> when it all still works.  

One other thing that might not be obvious: CNAMEs aren't
just for the A record, they get all associated data too
so you are providing an MX record for www.wa4phy.net
and ftp.wa4phy.net.  It doesn't hurt anything but it
might not be what you expect.

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  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com