can CNAMEs and MXs coexist
Michael Voight
mvoight at cisco.com
Mon Aug 30 22:31:30 UTC 1999
Nope. You can not have any other record for a host once you have a CNAME
Why not just create an A record instead of the CNAME?
Michael
Joel Miles wrote:
>
> can both CNAME and MX records exist for the same domain?
> here is what I'm talking about:
>
> miles.ods.org IN CNAME miles-update.ods.org
> miles.ods.org IN MX 10 miles.ods.org
> miles.ods.org IN MX 20 <my secondary mail server>
>
> while the miles-update.ods.org file looks like this:
>
> miles-update.ods.org IN A <my dynamically update ip>
>
> will this work? I haven't had much luck.
>
> PS:
> no I can't just put the MX records in miles-update.ods.org, the system I'm
> doing this on rewrites the RR every time I update my IP - so that option is
> out of the question.
>
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> jmiles at smm.org
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