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

[Barry Margolin]

In article <gllr91$2vqt$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Scott Haneda <talklists at newgeo.com> wrote:

> 100% right.  I refuse MX's that are cnamed, and I get emails from  
> customers asking what is up.  What is strange, and I can not figure it  
> out, is that the admins of the DNS/email server always tell me this is  
> the first time they have heard of it.

So you're not following the "be liberal in what you accept" half of the 
Interoperability Principle, which is intended specifically to avoid 
problems due to such confusion.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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