On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 owen@exodus.net wrote:

OK... Now it's crossed into the arena of my pet peeves, so I'll vent my opinion...

I believe that most machines should have at least two names...

mx1 mx2 mx3... should be assigned as CNAME records to the actual machine name (see below) that the machine currently performing that function is known by.

Hmmmm... MX records are CNAMES? Doesn't that cause problems with a certain popular MTA? /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Patrick Greenwell Earth is a single point of failure. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/