Can't Get The Hang Of The DNS Record

[Barry Margolin]

In article <200004040415.WAA08032 at thera.senator.org>,
Steve Senator <sts+bind-users at senator.colospgs.co.us> wrote:
>Bill Polhemus writes:
>
>The following aliases are not allowed to be present
>on the right hand side of MX records, as you have done
>below. Also, the EXTREF token that you have at the end
>is wrong. It's not an external reference. If you removed
>that nslint would generate the error that tells you not
>to put CNAMEs on the right-hand side of an MX, which is
>why this zone is rejected by BIND.

Although you're not supposed to point MX records to CNAMEs, I've never
known BIND to perform this check.

> > polhemus03.polhemus.cc. IN CNAME polhemus.cc.
> > www.polhemus.cc.   IN  CNAME polhemus.cc.
> > ftp.polhemus.cc.   IN  CNAME polhemus.cc.
> > mail.polhemus.cc.  IN  CNAME polhemus.cc.
>
>...
> > *.polhemus.cc.    IN  MX  10  mail.polhemus.cc. ; GLOBALOK
> > polhemus.cc.      IN  MX  10  mail.polhemus.cc. ; EXTREF

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