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	I'm no expert on this subject, but when I set mine up, I added an IN A 
and an IN PTR record of my machine (ie servername.mydomain.com).  I then
used that in the MX record.  I think that's the prefered way to do it.

Joe

Jim Freeze wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 31 May 2001, Joe Guetler wrote:
> 
> >       If I remeber correctly (and someone will hopefully correct me if I
> > don't), you shouldn't use a CNAME reference in a MX record.  Point the
> > MX record to something with an actual IN A entry.
> 
> So, I should change:
> 
> > > eadsa.com.             IN  MX  10  mail.eadsa.com.
> > > *.eadsa.com.           IN  MX  100  mail.eadsa.com. ; GLOBALOK
> 
> to
> 
> > > eadsa.com.             IN  MX  10  eadsa.com.
> > > *.eadsa.com.           IN  MX  100  eadsa.com. ; GLOBALOK
> 
> ?
> 
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