Re: [fetchmail-users] Local FQDN

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

Chris Bell wrote:
> On Fri 08 Jun, Dave Coventry wrote:
>   
>
>   
>> Okay, I've registered localbuz.com 
>>     
>
>    You do mean registered with the proper registration authority for the
> ".com" names, and not that you just picked that name?
>   

Yes, that name is mine.

>>  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
>>     
>
>    localbuz.net is a domain name in the ".net" group, so must also be
> registered. If it is ever in use your DNS server should find the registered
> location, not any random local boxes. If you wish to use a local domain name
> it must not be any that could be registered by anyone else or found by the
> Internet DNS system.
>   

Yes, sorry; a typo. Localbuz.com is mine, not localbuz.net.

>    I have a private local domain name, but my mail server uses a name which
> is valid under my registered domain address, and my local DNS server has the
> correct configuration to allow it to operate under that name, with a CNAME
> reference to a separate database so that other local boxes can find it. My
> DNS server will not provide details of my local domain to any system outside
> my local network.
>    You may wish to read the Network Administrator Guide at The Linux
> Docomentation Project,
>
> http://www.tldp.org
>   

Yes, okay, I was worried that I was going slightly off topic here. You 
have confirmed that.


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