BIND 9.6 Flaw - CNAME vs. A Record in MX Records are NOT "Illegal"
Scott Haneda
talklists at newgeo.com
Tue Jan 27 04:09:15 UTC 2009
On Jan 26, 2009, at 7:54 PM, Al Stu wrote:
> If you refuse a CNAME then it is your SMTP server that is broken.
> The SMTP RFC's clearly state that SMTP servers are to accept and
> lookup a CNAME.
[RFC974] explicitly states that MX records shall not point to an alias
defined by a CNAME. That is what I was talking about, are you saying
this is not correct? As this is what I was under the impression for
quite some time.
--
Scott
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