[ILUG] CNAME and MX record with the same name

[Achim Dreyer]

On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 13:21 +0000, Niall O Broin wrote:
> It seems that you cannot have a CNAME and MX record with the same name  
> in a zone e.g. this is an illegal zonefile extract:
> 
> @       3600    IN      A       1.2.3.4
> @       3600    IN      NS      ns1.wherever.com.
> @       3600    IN      NS      ns2.wherever.com.
> something  3600    IN      CNAME   @
> something  3600    IN      MX	99	 mail.wherever.com
> 
> because of the two something records. If instead there was

Bit more information...


From: http://www.bind9.net/manual/bind/9.3.1/Bv9ARM.ch06.html

6.3.2. Discussion of MX Records
...For a given domain, if there is both a CNAME record and an MX record,
the MX record is in error, and will be ignored. Instead, the mail will
be delivered to the server specified in the MX record pointed to by the
CNAME.


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Regards,
Achim Dreyer