On Feb 25, 2013, at 8:21 AM, Jerry Franz wrote: > On 02/25/2013 08:06 AM, aurfalien wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Has any one had problems with mail clients were your DNS is like this; >> >> doman.com MX 50 mail.domain.com >> domain.com MX 100 mail2.domain.com >> >> domain.com CNAME www.domain.com >> >> > > The short answer is you can't do that and expect it to work because you can't mix CNAME and other types of records for a hostname. It is simply an invalid configuration at a DNS level. > > Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNAME_record#Restrictions > > -- > Benjamin Franz Forgot, i did allow this for a few weeks and mail broke as well as the wild card SSL ceasing to work as it has; *.domain.com domain.com At any rate, I will insist that mixing MX/CNAME will not be possible but wanted to see if I missed something. Hence this seemingly basic posting t the list. - aurf