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Cromwelly · 2003-09-25 23:18:31

Assuming I have a Unix box with sendmail which serves something.com, and I can connect to the smtp server on the machine by connecting to (port 25?) of something.com If I want to use mail.something.com instead. I obviously have to alter my dns to resolve mail.something.com which will point all such requests to the box. Is…

26-09-2003 12:18am

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Cromwelly

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Assuming I have a Unix box with sendmail which serves something.com, and I can connect to the smtp server on the machine by connecting to (port 25?) of something.com

If I want to use mail.something.com instead.

I obviously have to alter my dns to resolve mail.something.com which will point all such requests to the box. Is that all I need to do ?

Is there actually any point in doing this at all ? Why not have everything, mail, mysql left at something.com ?

Obviously it makes sense if I have a seperate box for mail, database etc.

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#2 26-09-2003 12:33am

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Unless you have separate boxes for each service (mail, db etc.) there is no need to give each one a separate hostname. Some systems do it by default, others don't.

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