BIND 9.6 Flaw - CNAME vs. A Record in MX Records are NOT "Illegal"

[Chris Thompson]

On Jan 25 2009, Chris Hills wrote:

>Perhaps one day MX records can be deprecated entirely in favor of SRV. 
>Jabber got it right, and it would solve the e-mail server autodiscovery 
>problem for clients in a generic non-proprietary manner.
>
>For example:- _smtp-server._tcp for servers, _smtp-client._tcp for clients.

But would this satisfy the OP? The RDATA of an SRV record isn't meant to
reference a CNAME any more than that of an MX record is.

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Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 at cam.ac.uk