Pointing MX Records at CNAMES

Tue Aug 15 17:56:38 UTC 2000

On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 12:40:04PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> 	Is it or is it not legal to point a MX record at a name
> which is actually an alias for another system?

DNS & BIND (Second Ed.) says "you can't use a CNAME in the data portion
of a resource record". (p. 138).
AFAIK, the only record can point to a record with a CNAME is another
CNAME, though that's not recommended.

Regards,

james
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