Re: tlug: Quest for e-mail

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Dave Gutteridge wrote:

> By the way, i learned from the NAG that MX stands for "mail exchanger", and
> told me a little about it. but i still haven't found out about "A records",
> as mentioned previously by Stephen. What are "A records"?

A records are in there too.  P. 89 of the bound version, but I don't know if
this corresponds to the e-version (probably not). To quote from the bound
version:

-------------------
[An A record] associates an IP address with a host name.  The resource data
field contains the address in dotted quad notation.

For each host, there must be only one A record.  The hostname used in this A
record is considered the official or *canonical* host name.  All other
hostnames are aliases and must be mapped onto the canonical hostname using a
CNAME record.
-------------------

Cheers,

Jonathan

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