Search Again: Re: MX records and CNames? From: Warren Michelsen Date: Sunday, April 2, 2000 Time: 9:25:59 am At 4:01 PM -0600 3/25/00, Jerry Pasker-Systems Admin. wrote: > >You're wrong... CNAMES in MX records break things quite badly. I've run >into it myself once and after trying to figure out why SOME (two acutally) >mail servers were not being able to send mail to my domain, I traced it to >me placing an MX record that pointed to a CNAME. It worked fine, until I >changed the name of my mailserver, and without thinking about it, made a >CNAME of the old server name point to the new name, without changing the MX >records. At that point the MX records that once pointed at A records, >were then aimed at CNAMES, and things started getting weird. However... Is there a problem with this arrangement? mail.MainDomain.com A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Maindomain.com MX 10 mail.MainDomain.com ... anotherDomain.com C mail.MainDomain.com with no MX for anotherdomain.com? -- Internet Tools for Business -- <http://www.CyberSpaces.net/> E-commerce capable web hosting

Messages In This Thread: MX records and CNames? by billc@greenbuilder.com on Mar 25, 2000 at 9:16:00 pm Re: MX records and CNames? by Jerry Pasker-Systems Admin. on Mar 25, 2000 at 10:01:00 pm Re: MX records and CNames? by billc@greenbuilder.com on Mar 25, 2000 at 11:01:00 pm Re: MX records and CNames? by Warren Michelsen on Apr 2, 2000 at 9:25:59 am Re: MX records and CNames? by Men & Mice Support on Apr 3, 2000 at 10:31:48 pm Re: MX records and CNames? by Greg Saulsbury on Apr 27, 2000 at 2:02:24 pm Re: MX records and CNames? by Men & Mice Support on Apr 27, 2000 at 2:24:23 pm Re: MX records and CNames? by Greg Saulsbury on Apr 27, 2000 at 3:45:56 pm