MX records

[Kevin Darcy]

Patrice Neff wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I have an MX record for the domain patrice.ch.
>
> These are some parts of my config file:
>
> <snip>
> ; mail-server record
>                 IN MX   10 mail
>
> [...]
>
> ; Subdomain for BKM
> bkm             IN CNAME        merkur.delta.ch.
>                 IN MX           10 mail
>

You can't have bkm.delta.ch be *both* an alias and an MX record. Pick
one or the other, not both. There would be no problem if you just had an
A record for bkm.delta.ch which pointed to the same address as that of
merkur.delta.ch. A records can co-exist with MX records, but CNAMEs
can't co-exist with any records at all, except for some of the newer
DNSSEC-related ones.


- Kevin