Hi,
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:42:25PM +0100, Lars Hecking wrote:
> James Raftery writes:
> > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 03:35:54PM +0100, John P . Looney wrote:
> > > And let the DNS on the mail server go out!
> >
> > Erm, let DNS traffic through to your DNS servers. Your email server and
> > your DNS server may or may not be on the same machine.
>> But it's a Good Thing (TM) to have them on the same machine.
It's probably good to have *a* dns server on the mail machine. Whether it's
a good thing to have *the* dns server on the mail machine is debatable.
The mail machine could get by with just a dns cache that gets *the* dns
server to do all its lookups. Maybe.
IMHO, anyway.
Wesley.
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