[CentOS] mixing MX and CNAME
aurfalien
aurfalien at gmail.com
Mon Feb 25 18:41:15 UTC 2013
On Feb 25, 2013, at 9:39 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
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> Am 25.02.2013 17:56, schrieb aurfalien:
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>> On Feb 25, 2013, at 8:11 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
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>>>
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>>> Am 25.02.2013 17:06, schrieb aurfalien:
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> you CAN NOT do that
>>>
>>> domain.com must be a A-record
>>> is so, nothing can change this and named will refuse to start if you do so
>>
>> Sorry, should have clarified that an A record does exist for www.domain.com
>
> and why do you not make the A-record for "domain.com" and the
> CNAME for "www.domain.com" to "domain.com" as virtually everybody
> does who has mail and web services on a domain?
>
So A records and MX record mixes can coexist?
For example;
domain.com A 1.2.3.4
www.domain.com CNAME domain.com
And leave MX as is.
This should work?
- aurf
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