[CentOS] mixing MX and CNAME
aurfalien
aurfalien at gmail.com
Mon Feb 25 16:53:13 UTC 2013
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
Yes, I agree. I posted this as some one wants me to allow this due to old online articles referencing simply http://domain.com
I told them that I cannot allow CNAME and MX mix of any kind but they insist. At any rate its up to me in the end but I wanted to reach out to the community.
- aurf
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