MX with alias

[Cricket Liu]

Hi, Jade.

> I just upgrade from 8.1.2 to 8.2.2 and found that a zone won't load
> because an MX record also has a CNAME record (it used to generate an
> error message with 8.1.2 but continued on).  Is there a way to allow
> this without deleting the alias?

No, there's not.  "CNAME and other data" is now a hard error.  You
should fix it by either deleting the CNAME or attaching the MX record
to the target of the alias.  

I'm not sure why you'd want to allow this, since I'd guess the results
you'd get when looking up MX records could be unpredictable.

cricket

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