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:
Yes, it is illegal. If you have a CNAME for a name, you cannot have any
other type of record. Here's an attempted explanation why:
What people think CNAME does:
Given $name, try look up an A record, if no A record found, try lookup a
CNAME. If a CNAME record is found, lookup an A record for what it points to.
What CNAME actually does:
When looking up _any_ record for $name, if a CNAME is found, look up the
same type of record for what the CNAME points to instead.
That's why you cannot have a CNAME for $name as well as an A, MX, SOA,
or any other type. Hope that helps.
Steve
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