Search Again: Re: cname and mx record From: Men & Mice Support Date: Friday, June 4, 2004 Time: 4:14:16 pm MX -> CNAME is bad. Don't do it - not all MTA's can figure that out, because according to the standards, they don't have to. Here's a better solution: idealzone.com. MX 10 post.mail.mainserver.net. mail.idealzone.com. CNAME post.mail.mainserver.net. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy At 2:46 PM -0700 6/4/04, rushi de silva wrote: >hello > >i went to dnsreport.com and it giving me some warnings. > >here's my setup. > >idealzone.com mx 10 mail.idealzone.com >mail.idealzone.com cname post.mail.mainserver.net > > >of course in the mainserver.net zone > >i have an A record > >post.mail.mainserver.net A x.x.x.x > >does anybody think this is a problem. > >i did it this way so that if the mail server changes i would have to >change only one record in mainserver.net and all other domains would >reach it. > >thanks >rashantha

Messages In This Thread: cname and mx record by rushi de silva on Jun 4, 2004 at 2:47:57 pm Re: cname and mx record by Len Conrad on Jun 4, 2004 at 3:05:45 pm Re: cname and mx record by Men & Mice Support on Jun 4, 2004 at 4:14:16 pm