Re: Multiple host names for a single server?

[Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:20 AM Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
...
> The primary purpose of the actual hostname is for you to be able to
> identify *which* computer is having a problem.  E.g. if you receive an
> email from a machine identifying itself as "www.yourdomain" but you have
> three such web servers operating as a round robin, then you will have
> to put in some work to figure out which of the three it came from.
>
> But if the email comes from a machine which self-identifies as
> "www1.yourdomain", then you have a better idea where to fix the issue.

Thanks, Greg.

-Tom