can CNAMEs and MXs coexist

[Michael Voight]

Nope. You can not have any other record for a host once you have a CNAME
Why not just create an A record instead of the CNAME?

Michael

Joel Miles wrote:
> 
> can both CNAME and MX records exist for the same domain?
> here is what I'm talking about:
> 
> miles.ods.org IN CNAME miles-update.ods.org
> miles.ods.org IN MX 10 miles.ods.org
> miles.ods.org IN MX 20 <my secondary mail server>
> 
> while the miles-update.ods.org file looks like this:
> 
> miles-update.ods.org IN A <my dynamically update ip>
> 
> will this work?  I haven't had much luck.
> 
> PS:
> no I can't just put the MX records in miles-update.ods.org, the system I'm
> doing this on rewrites the RR every time I update my IP - so that option is
> out of the question.
> 
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