CNAME records having MX
Michael Kjorling
michael at kjorling.com
Mon Dec 17 16:50:43 UTC 2001
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Why would this be bad? Just replace "foo" with "@", and "bar" with
"www" and you have what a lot of people do for their second-level
domains.
Spared the SOA and NS RRs, of course. But that was never the point.
The origin really can be anything.
Michael Kjörling
On Dec 17 2001 10:42 -0600, Barry Finkel wrote:
> Technically (and I think that the other responders have the same idea),
> it is not "an example of 'CNAME can point to an MX'".
> It is a CNAME and an MX record pointing to the same RHS nodename.
> I believe that if you had
>
> foo IN MX 0 mail
> mail IN A 192.168.1.10
> bar IN CNAME foo
>
> where there was no "A" record for "foo", then this would be an invalid
> configuration. I am not sure what "pointing to an MX" really means.
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