On Feb 25, 2013, at 9:39 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 25.02.2013 17:56, schrieb aurfalien: >> >> On Feb 25, 2013, at 8:11 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> 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