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

[Scott Haneda]

On Jan 26, 2009, at 7:54 PM, Al Stu wrote:

> If you refuse a CNAME then it is your SMTP server that is broken.   
> The SMTP RFC's clearly state that SMTP servers are to accept and  
> lookup a CNAME.


[RFC974] explicitly states that MX records shall not point to an alias  
defined by a CNAME.  That is what I was talking about, are you saying  
this is not correct?  As this is what I was under the impression for  
quite some time.
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Scott