Pointing MX Records at CNAMES
James Raftery
james-bind-users at domainregistry.ie
Tue Aug 15 17:56:38 UTC 2000
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 12:40:04PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> Is it or is it not legal to point a MX record at a name
> which is actually an alias for another system?
DNS & BIND (Second Ed.) says "you can't use a CNAME in the data portion
of a resource record". (p. 138).
AFAIK, the only record can point to a record with a CNAME is another
CNAME, though that's not recommended.
Regards,
james
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