Search Again: Re: Multiple CNAMES... who cares? From: Men & Mice Support Date: Friday, July 30, 1999 Time: 8:21:00 am >Well, what's worse, redundant A records or multiple CNAME's? > >For example, I have my secondary dns on the same machine as my secondary >mailserver. > >Right now, I have it set up like so: > >mydomain.com. NS ns2.mydomain.com. >ns2.mydomain.com. A 198.0.0.0 > >mydomain.com. MX mail.mydomain.com >mail.mydomain.com CNAME 198.0.0.0 > >Should the mailserver record be an A or CNAME in this case? Address, not alias. BTW: Multiple CNAME records are not an error. It's just an error to use an alias (name with CNAME record) in any other record (except another CNAME). It's also an error for an alias to have subdomains. There is no rule against redundant A records (multiple hostnames with address records resolving to the same address). The following is *not* an error: ns2.mydomain.com. A 192.168.0.1 mail.mydomain.com. A 192.168.0.1 However, this is an error: mail.mydomain.com. CNAME 192.168.0.1 (which is analogous to what you put above). A CNAME *must* resolve to another hostname. I assume that was a simple transcription error on your part. Hope this helps. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com http://www.menandmice.com

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