On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 14:30 +0000, Niall O Broin wrote:
> On 18 Dec 2005, at 13:47, Achim Dreyer wrote:
>> > With your first setup something is just an alias(CNAME) for the zone.
> > I'm quite sure that the documentation mentions that you can't associate
> > any other RR with an alias.
>> No cigar on that one I'm afraid. This
>> something 3600 IN A 1.2.3.4
> otherthing 3600 CNAME A something
> otherthing 3600 IN MX 99 mail.wherever.com
>> is also illegal, so it's not just with an alias for the zone.
>>> Niall
So "something" is the real thing (a machine) and "otherthing" is an
alias for that thing - and an *alias* can not have another RR record
attached (which in your case is an MX record). Only real things can
have further RRs (attributes).
The wording of the CNAME definition is in my eyes very confusing. The
above is how I would describe it.
--
Regards,
Achim Dreyer
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