From owner-freebsd-security Thu Nov 18 10:12:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE53B14D82 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:12:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA86247; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:12:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:12:27 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199911181812.KAA86247@apollo.backplane.com> To: matt Cc: David G Andersen , bsd@a.servers.aozilla.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Systalk] localhost.org (fwd) References: Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org : :Another thing you (the original poster) could do, is if you want your :machine to work on the net like domain.com, You could simply name the :machine something.domain.com, CNAME domain.com to it, and reverse the You can't CNAME domain.com, since domain.com must have the NS records and domain's with CNAME's aren't allowed to have other record types. You can direct mail with MX records. You can't map domain.com's IP address to the host's real IP address and have the reverse be domain.com ... for the host's real IP address the reverse must match the hostname, host.domain.com. But you *can* assign two IP addresses to the host (i.e. use an IP alias), making the IP alias resolve to domain.com both forward and reverse while the primary IP for the host resolves properly to host.domain.com both forward and reverse. Fun, eh? -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message