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>Chapter 14. Fancy records for seamless email and URL integration</H1
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> PDNS also supports so called 'fancy' records. A Fancy Record is actually not a DNS record, but it is translated into one. Currently,
two fancy records are implemented, but not very useful without additional unreleased software. For completeness, they are listed here.
The software will become available later on and is part of the Express and PowerMail suite of programs.
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> These records imply extra database lookups which has a performance impact. Therefore fancy records are only queried for if they are enabled
with the <B
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> This record denotes an email forward. A typical entry looks like this:
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> support@yourdomain.com MBOXFW you@yourcompany.com
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When PDNS encounters a request for an MX record for yourdomain.com it will, if fancy records are enabled, also check for the existence
of an MBOXFW record ending on '@yourdomain.com', in which case it will hand out a record containing the configured
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>smtpredirector</B
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support@yourdomain.com should go to.
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> URL records work in much the same way, but for HTTP. A sample record:
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> yourdomain.com URL http://somewhere.else.com/yourdomain
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A URL record is converted into an A record containing the IP address configured with the <B
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>urlredirector</B
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setting. On that IP address a webserver should live that knows how to redirect yourdomain.com to
http://somewhere.else.com/yourdomain.
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