Does "@" in CNAME record not work?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9ilhcj$f1s at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Jim Lum  <jlum at cox.rr.com> wrote:
>>         mydomain.com            SOA ...
>>         mydomain.com            NS ns1.mydomain.com
>>         mydomain.com            A 192.168.0.4  ; must be an A record
>>         ns1.mydomain.com        A 192.168.0.4  ; must be an A record
>>         www.mydomain.com        CNAME mydomain.com
>
>
>Mark,
>
>Doesn't that bring me back to the problem pointed out in the Bind/DNS
>book (3rd edition, pgs. 64-65)?

Only if this machine is also your mail server, and only if you want to
allow people to address mail to user at ns1.mydomain.com in addition to
user at mydomain.com.

But you can deal with that by including ns1.mydomain.com in Cw line of
/etc/sendmail.cf.

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