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Roger Fajman <[log in to unmask]>
Mon, 17 May 1999 21:11:32 -0400
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> >    On Friday I migrated from LISTSERV 1.8C on VM to LISTSERV 1.8d on a
> > Unix system.  It seems to be running ok.  However, the From: address
> > on notes from the Unix server use the real domain name for it which
> > is "unix1.it-datactr.louisville.edu".  I would rather it use the alias
> > which is "listserv.louisville.edu".  I have coded the alias in the
> > NODE and MYDOMAIN entries of the configuration.  Is there something
> > else I need to do?
>
> Hmm.. this smells like a CNAME confusion.
>
> Our local solution was to just use 'listserv.vt.edu' as the real, actual,
> DNS-registered hostname.

What we did is to create two sets of A records in the DNS, one for the
real name of the machine and another for the "alias" for LISTSERV.
Works fine.

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