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

[Michael van Elst]

Barry Margolin <barmar at alum.mit.edu> writes:

>customer.com. IN MX 10 mx.yourdomain.com.
>mx.yourdomain.com. IN CNAME mx.outsourcer.com.
>mx.outsourcer.com. IN A ...

That's just the same as

| customer.com. IN MX 10 mx.outsourcer.com.
| mx.outsourcer.com. IN A ...

except to people with half-a-knowledge about DNS queries.

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