[OpenAFS] mail spool on AFS

[Russ Allbery]

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/>