MenuEze on Linux?

Bill Campbell bill at celestial.com
Wed Mar 15 11:10:58 PST 2006


On Wed, Mar 15, 2006, Fairlight wrote:
>Confusious (Bill Campbell) say:
>> 
>> To be safe on references like this, use the generic domain,
>> lists.celestiall.com instead of diablo.celestial.com as I'm
>> planning on moving the lists off that machine to a newer box
>> shortly (diablo was originally a FreeBSD box so named after the
>> little daemon).
>> 
>> http://lists.celestial.com/pipermail/filepro-list/2006-February/012013.html
>
>To be fair, I -did- use lists.celestial.com when looking it up.  I always
>do.  Hitting '=' in lynx to get the URL showed Diablo.  The problem's in
>your DNS, Bill:
>
>
>[shell1] [~] [1:46pm]: nslookup lists.celestial.com

You're *STILL* using the deprecated nslookup :-).

>Server:         127.0.0.1
>Address:        127.0.0.1#53
>
>Non-authoritative answer:
>Name:   lists.celestial.com
>Address: 192.136.111.52
>
>[shell1] [~] [1:46pm]: nslookup 192.136.111.52
>Server:         127.0.0.1
>Address:        127.0.0.1#53
>
>Non-authoritative answer:
>52.111.136.192.in-addr.arpa     name = diablo.celestial.com.
>
>
>"Fix" your PTR record and all will be well.  :) :)

The PTR for the IP points to the primary name of the machine
while lists.celestial.com is a role name which may move from
machine to machine.

I could use a CNAME for it as well, but generally avoid them.

Bill
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