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Date:      Sat, 03 Jun 2000 20:39:54 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
To:        Troy Settle <troy@picus.com>
Cc:        Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>, webmaster@wmptl.com, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IP vs CNAME
Message-ID:  <3939CF8A.D02BF459@gorean.org>
References:  <FCEELIAEIIECDGKKJLMIAECHCAAA.troy@picus.com>

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Troy Settle wrote:

> Uh... MX has nothing to do with the web hosting side of things.  

	Man... I wish that were true. People who own domain names want custom DNS
records associated with them. MX records are one of the most common
requests. 

> As for your basic DNS config, there's absolutely nothign wrong with the
> following:

	Except that it doesn't work. There's no SOA record, and you can't combine
CNAME RR's and other RR's for the same host. 

> @       IN    CNAME    webhost.isp.net.
>         IN    MX  10   mailhost.isp.net.
>         IN    MX  20   spooler.isp.net.
>           IN    NS       ns1.isp.net.
>         IN    NS       ns2.isp.net.
> www     IN    CNAME    webhost.isp.net.
> mail    IN    CNAME    mailhost.isp.net.


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