Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:30:20 -0800 From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: william@hq.newdream.net Cc: parthasarathi biswas <parthax@yahoo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DNS Message-ID: <3A6FB9EC.AD60AE1E@FreeBSD.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101210009440.1402-100000@jazz.hq.newdream.net>
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william@hq.newdream.net wrote:
>
> you can't have an MX record pointing to a CNAME
This is partially correct. You can point an MX record to a CNAME, it won't
be seen as an error to named. However, it is a violation of the protocol,
and mail will fail silently because of the error.
> you should probably use as few CNAMES as possible.
This is definitely correct.
> the reason you're getting the second error is simply due to the first
This is definitely not right.
> > test IN CNAME partha
> > ;Mail Records
> > IN MX 10 mail.master.com.
The error is here. The lack of a host on the LHS tells named that the MX
record belongs to test. However, as your DNS logs would have told you if
you had looked at them, a record cannot have a CNAME and other data
attached.
Doug
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