[AusNOG] Incorrect DNS setup

[Mark Prior]

Mark Andrews wrote:

> Using "www." was a way to signal that you supported http.  It also
> provided a way to seperate http from email at a time when email
> servers were deemed much more critical that http which was often
> run on the side.  Often the question was "can we safely run smtp
> and http on the one box" and the answer was often "no".

I would also point people at BCP 17 "Use of DNS Aliases for Network 
Services" <http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2219.txt>.

Mark.