[OpenAFS] mail spool on AFS
Russ Allbery
rra@stanford.edu
20 Nov 2001 14:59:40 -0800
Nathan Rawling <nrawling@firedrake.net> writes:
> On 20 Nov 2001, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> MIT uses Hesiod, which is based on DNS. The management is via a
>> database that writes out the DNS file. This way users can be migrated
>> -- the mail apps look up the POServer in Hesiod to find out which Mail
>> Server to contact.
> How much code-modification was required to add this support to the
> mailreaders?
Don't use Hesiod, not for this. Just use CNAMEs. Then you don't have to
modify a single line of code.
We have a pobox.stanford.edu subdomain, and every single user has a
username.pobox.stanford.edu DNS CNAME for their mail server. The zone
files are all generated automatically from a database. There's really no
reason to use Hesiod rather than CNAMEs unless you have to inform the
clients of protocol as well as server.
windlord:~> host rra.pobox.stanford.edu
rra.pobox.stanford.edu CNAME popserver2.stanford.edu
popserver2.stanford.edu A 171.64.14.68
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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>