[CentOS] mixing MX and CNAME

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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>>> 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