RR conflicts

[Michael Voight]

It violates the rules...

Why do you need it? Why not make it an A record, or change the MX record
to an A record.  I know of no modern mailers that will not send mail
based on the A record. With a single MX record, I don't see an
advantage.

Actually, I think you do just as well by sending mail to the CNAME
record and don't need a separate MX record.

Michael

Sam Shteingart wrote:
> 
> 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.  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?
> 
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> Sam Shteingart   Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Co.
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> 
> e-mail:  samsh at ms.com