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Kevin Agard <[log in to unmask]> wrote on 06/21/2007 03:18:38 AM:

> Can the IP address of the SMTP server be used in the cfg file instead of

> a FQDN?

Regardless of whether it can be done, it's still a bad idea.  Hard coding
IP addresses is a bad idea on anything except the IP of you DNS server.
(How else would you get to them?)

Too many times, I have seen IP address ranges change, and someone forgets
a system that had a hard coded IP address, and then they can't figure out
why it isn't working any more.

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William Brown
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