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From: sxjlh@acad3a.alaska.edu (Jeff Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Domain level mail addressing
Message-ID: <1990Dec17.081050@acad3a.alaska.edu>
Date: 17 Dec 90 17:12:59 GMT
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Reply-To: sxjlh@acad3a.alaska.edu (Jeff Harrison)
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I want to set up our domain server to accept mail queries for our top level
domain ALASKA.EDU 
and translate them to our mailer host ACAD3.ALASKA.EDU.  I've seen other sites
with mail
addresses listed as userid@domain.  To be specific, I'd like to have my address
be listed as
sxjlh@alaska.edu.  Then our domain server will resolve alaska.edu to be
acad3.alaska.edu.  I've been unable to code the SOA to deal with it.  I can
enter CNAME records for acad3 to be alaska.edu., but then mail attempts to
deliver to sxjlh@alaska.edu and the host doesn't exist.  I've been told by some
that this is a mail specific issue but it seems to me bind should be able to
handle this.  We are running our bind server on a VAX/VMS system using WIN/TCP
5.1.

Jeff Harrison
Systems Programmer
University of Alaska Computer Network
sxjlh@acad3.alaska.edu