From: Jamie C. <jca...@we...> - 2001-05-11 15:00:56
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"Rodolfo J. Paiz" wrote: > > At 5/10/01 04:06 PM -0500, you wrote: > > >www IN A 1.2.3.4 > > > >or > > > > IN MX 5 mail.blah.com. > > > >Otherwise it won't work. The catch is that webmin always > >converts relative names to absolute one, so if you edit > >a record that is included into multiple domains it will > >be messed up. > > 1. I thought we couldn't leave the LHS blank as you did here for MX (re the > template page)? You can't in the template, but it is allowed in zone files. I don't like to use it though, because it means that the record name is the same as the previous record. > 2. What do you mean, always converts relative to absolute? I didn't > understand; could you be more specific? In a zone file, you can have a record named just www for example. But if you edit this in webmin, it will be changed to its full canonical name like www.foo.com. > 3. The way you've done this (mail.blah.com.) would put *every domain's* MX > to mail.blah.com. Is there any way that we could always use domain.com for > the included domain? You could just have an MX record like : IN MX 5 mail The server name mail would then be resolved to mail.whateverdomain.com. - Jamie |