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Subject: Re: OT: DNS - MX
From: Ralf Hildebrandt (Ralf.Hildebrandtberliner-volksbank.de)
Date: Thu Nov 02 2000 - 02:47:30 CST

Sasa Babic wrote:

> Someone mentioned that MX record shouldn't point to a CNAME record. So,
> is it something that is demanded by a RFC or is it just considered a
> good practise? Or am I completly on the wrong track?

http://www.acmebw.com/askmrdns/bind-messages.htm
always good if you don't know what your BIND is barking about.

But back to the question:
http://www.intac.com/~cdp/cptd-faq/section6.html
see "Question 6.6. Can an NS record point to a CNAME ?":

... snip ...
Only one RR type is allowed to refer, in its data field, to a CNAME, and
that's CNAME itself. So CNAMEs can refer to CNAMEs but NSs and MXs
cannot.
...snip ... 

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