Help with MX records and CNAME records

[Kevin Darcy]

AJ wrote:

> Thanks to all replies but we were able to fix this issue.
>
> The Load balancer in Question is the Cisco CSS 11500. We were trying to
> GLobal Load balance the site using the CSS. The problem we got into was that
> the Site had and MX record associated with it and the CSS directly doensot
> support the MX records.
>
> What we finally end up doing is Forwarding all requests that the CSS
> couldnot handle to an non authrotative DNS. The CSS is Authrotative. The non
> auth one is able to respond back to us on the MX.

How? It's non-authoritative, so it's got to ask an authoritative server for the
MX record. But the authoritative server -- the CSS -- can't provide an MX
record. So where is the MX record coming from?

Or, did you perhaps mean "delegated" rather than "authoritative"...


- Kevin