MX records and CNAMEs

[Wouter Van Crombruggen]

It will work, but is not according RFC and might not work on future releases
of BIND (version 9?)

"Will Palmer" <rwp at totalise.co.uk> wrote in message
news:9e755l$arq at pub3.rc.vix.com...
>
> Hello,
>
> The MX records for my domain are currently as follows:
>
> domain.com IN MX 0 smtp.domain.com
> domain.com IN MX 10 relay.domain.com
>
> With the following CNAME records pointing the specified mail exchangers to
> the correct servers
>
> smtp.domain.com IN CNAME mail.domain.com
> relay.domain.com IN CNAME mail2.domain.com
>
> Is this ok or could it potentially cause a routing problem. Should
> smtp.domain.com and relay.domain.com have A records? If this could cause a
> problem would someone possibly tell me why.
>
> Thank You
> Will Palmer
>
>