CNAME records having MX

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9ve4i6$nbe at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
McNutt, Justin M. <McNuttJ at missouri.edu> wrote:
>All right, now.  You're getting upset about the proper use of prepositions
>now.  Whether a CNAME "points to" or "points at" or "points from" is a
>useless argument.  Technically, *none* of those are correct, since that is
>not the verbage used in the RFC.  I think we can agree that this is correct:

So?  I think we all understand that "points to XXX" means "XXX is the
RDATA".  All the time we say things like "MX record points to
mail.somewhere.com" or "NS record points to ns1.company.com" and there's
never any confusion.

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