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Date:      Wed, 5 Jul 2000 22:35:57 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: exchange a CNAME for an MX?
Message-ID:  <20000705223557.P13714@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <39639557.6D48621B@wmptl.com>
References:  <39639557.6D48621B@wmptl.com>

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Nathan Vidican wrote:

> 	IN	MX 100  mail.govital.net.
> 	IN	CNAME	web001.govital.net.

A CNAME will only work if there are *NO* other records for the host
it is defined for, AFAIK.  Buy the O'Reilly DNS book if you're doing
anything more with DNS than running it locally for a small network.
(which is all I do with it, hence "AFAIK" above :-)

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