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- ; Nameserver info for FIDONET.ORG domain
- ;
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- ;
- ; A copy of the DNS file is always available via:
- ; From the Internet:
- ; ftp://ftp.fidonet.org/pub/fidonet/info/fidonet.dns
- ;
- ; From FidoNet:
- ; FidoNet File-Request:
- ; from 1:13/10 for magic-name DNS -or-
- ; target an Update-Request for FIDONET.DNS
- ;
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- ;
- ; How to Read the information in the DNS File:
- ; -------------------------------------------
- ;
- ; The leftmost column contains either the SITENAME or the wildcard
- ; pattern for the Net.
- ;
- ; The 2nd column is *always* "IN".
- ;
- ; The 3rd column contains either:
- ; NS = Nameserver Record
- ; in which case it is followed by the
- ; Fully-Qualified-Domain-Name of the IP machine
- ; which is delegated "Authority" for the subdomain
- ; named in Column 1.
- ; A = Address Record
- ; followed by the "dotted quad" IP address of the
- ; hostname referred to in Column 1.
- ; CNAME = "Canonical Name"
- ; followed by the FQDN of the *real* name of the
- ; machine being referred to. It tells the DNS what to
- ; lookup and substitute.
- ; MX = Mail Exchanger
- ; followed by a precedence number and the name of
- ; the machine where this host's mail should be sent.
- ; This indicates the IP-connected machine that MAIL is
- ; to be sent to which the gateway named in column 1
- ; is connected to, or which *does* know how to get
- ; Mail to the gateway/host named in column 1.
- ; This *must* be the *real* name of the machine (the
- ; one which it's SMTP-daemon answers as) and cannot
- ; point to a CNAME record.
- ; There may be multiple MX records, in which case they
- ; are tried in order of precedence. The MX-records
- ; also tell the higher numbered MX-receivers that
- ; they are to forward the mail ONLY to the lower numbered
- ; MX-receivers, and NOT to try to "talk to itself".
- ; The real entries for the MX-receivers *must* have
- ; an 'A' record and cannot point to a hostname which
- ; itself is only referred to with MX-records.
- ;
- ; Comments:
- ; Everything following a semi-colon is a comment.
- ; For the gateway SITEnames, the FidoNet Node Number of the
- ; gateway host is usually behind a semi-colon (it is for
- ; information only and is NOT part of the DNS mechanism).
- ; For the wildcard MX-records for the Nets, I usually have
- ; the SITEname of the gateway which the MX-receiver forwards
- ; to behind the semi-colon.
- ;
- ;
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- ;
- ; Each Net which has a gateway has a wildcard MX-record.
- ; The IP site which the mail is directed to is expected to have
- ; installed the sendmail or smail rules necessary to queue
- ; ALL mail for *.nNET.z#.fidonet.org for pickup by the
- ; appropriate gateway site.
- ;
- ; A wildcard MX-record is maintained for each Zone, so that
- ; there is always a "default" gateway for any new Nets which
- ; are placed in the Nodelist by the *C's.
- ;
- ; At present, the Zone-1 "default" MX points to fidonet.fidonet.org,
- ; which queues mail for gating by 1:1/31.
- ; This catches all addresses in Zone-1 which do NOT otherwise
- ; have an MX-record for the Node or Net.
- ;
- ; IT IS HIGHLY LIKELY THAT ZONE-1 WILL CEASE TO HAVE A "DEFAULT"
- ; GATEWAY IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE. THERE IS NO WAY THIS SITE CAN
- ; HANDLE THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC COMING THRU FOR ZONE-1 AT THE
- ; CURRENT LEVELS.
- ;
- ; Where possible, the gateway sitename is shown as a Comment
- ; behind a semi-colon after the MX-record.
- ;
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