RR conflicts

[Cricket Liu]

Sam Shteingart <samsh at ms.com> wrote in message
news:<37A1DC20.56D93F01 at ms.com>...
> I have the following entries in my zone file:
>
> emc     MX      10 morgank
> morgank A          1.2.3.4
> emc     CNAME      morgank
>
> bind 4.9.6 had no problems with the above.

It sure did.  It was just a warning, rather than a hard error.

> bind 8.2.1, however, complains:
>
> named[27358]: emc.ms.com has CNAME and other data (invalid)
> master zone "ms.com" (IN) rejected due to errors (serial 933102907)
>
> Why cannot I have CNAME and MX records with the same names?

Because a CNAME record says "all records associated with this name are
actually at this other name."

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