Re: [fetchmail-users] Local FQDN

[Dave C. <dc...@do...>]

Thanks for your help on this, Rob, I hope we haven't strayed too far Off 
Topic...

Rob Funk wrote:
> The domain name is separate from the machine name.  I have funknet.net 
> registered, so I can use whatever names I want within that.  In DNS, 
> www.funknet.net points to one server, www2.funknet.net points to another, 
> and mail.funknet.net points to another.
> And in my private network I can use whatever funknet.net names I want that 
> don't conflict with the others I've set.
>
>   
>> When you say subdomain, presumably you mean something like
>> baynet.localbuz.com?
>>     
>
> Depends on the meaning of "like" there.
>
> In my home network I use the subdomain local.funknet.net, so for example 
> right now I'm using the machine hactar.local.funknet.net.
>
>   
>> Would it be possible to locate this on another 
>> server?
>>     
>
> Servers are different from domains.  Servers are given names within 
> domains.  A domain can contain many servers.  (I have another machine at 
> home called marvin.local.funknet.net.)
>
> Of course, a single server can also answer to multiple names or even 
> multiple domains, but that's a story for another time.
>
>   
Okay, I've registered localbuz.com and the DNS links the domain name to 
my hosting company's server. If I have a machine in my office called 
bayserver.localbuz.net, I take it that there is no link between the two? 
Anybody looking for bayserver.localbuz.com would not find it because 
there would be no DNS link? And that the only reason I would want to do 
this is to provide programs like fetchmail and postfix with a point of 
reference?

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