Advise with MX records

Simon Waters Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk
Fri Aug 17 16:29:01 UTC 2001


Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> 
> mail    IN      CNAME   ns2
> @               IN      MX      5       mail.wananchi.com.

> Is it wrong to have a CNAME as an MX record? I see things like this in the
> logs:

Yes - wrong to have any RR point at a CNAME.

> If that is wrong, then what am I supposed to do?

Use a "canonical name"

mail 	IN A	1.2.3.4
@	IN MX 5 mail


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