can CNAMEs and MXs coexist

[Michael Voight]

Well, do you need the MX records?

There is a way in BIND 8.2 to turn off CNAME checking, but it is not
recommened. Experts: If you alias miles.ods.org, won't that screw up the
MX record?

Michael

Barry Margolin wrote:
> 
> In article <37CB0642.12E1B1B2 at cisco.com>,
> Michael Voight  <mvoight at cisco.com> wrote:
> >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?
> 
> Because ods.org is a provider of dynamic DNS.  miles-update.ods.org gets
> updated automatically, but miles.ods.org apparently doesn't.
> 
> >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.
> 
> Why not do:
> 
> miles.ods.org. IN MX 10 miles-update.ods.org.
> miles.ods.org. IN MX 20 <your secondary mail server>
> 
> You can also have:
> 
> www.miles.ods.org. IN CNAME miles-update.ods.org.
> 
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