Offence CNAME as MX??

Eivind Olsen eivind.olsen at ttyl.com
Thu Nov 8 12:45:11 UTC 2001


--On 8. november 2001 15:38 +0300 Odhiambo Washington <wash at wananchi.com> 
wrote:
> Now the question that I have is: Is this bad that our MX is a CNAME. If
> yes, is there a good/clean way of going round this while maintaining the
> name?

Yes, it's bad to have an MX record pointing at a CNAME.

You can keep the name if you make mail.wananchi.com an A record towards the 
same IP-address as ns2.wananchi.com.

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Talk To You Later
Eivind Olsen




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