CNAME records having MX

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 01:33:17PM -0500, Michele Chubirka wrote:
> Is it true that a CNAME record can't have an MX record associated with it?
> Am I remembering this correctly?

Neither side of an MX record may also be the left-hand side of a CNAME
record.  So the following are both invalid.

cruncher	MX	mail
mail		CNAME	grinch

cruncher	MX	grinch
cruncher	CNAME	cluster

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