Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 23:32:38 -0700 From: "Joe Read" <joer@triax.com> To: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Rico Pajarola" <pajarola@cybertime.ch> Subject: Re: MX CNAME Message-ID: <00a301bdb85f$2facce60$c8633ace@paranoia>
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>CNAMEs are for human convenience only, they are for your users >who don't
want to type an un-intuitive or complicated canonical >hostname, but for
*you* (the admin) it shouldn't be a problem to point >the MX (or any other
record) directly to the A record that the CNAME >points to. There should
never be any other records pointing to a >CNAME, because it would just make
you do more (or longer) >queries. This RFC rule is to allow the clients to
just use simple >queries.
Until you have a customer paying you about $2000/mo demand you change it so
that any sort of nslookup points only to their domain, not even a simple
little mx record.
Question:
Can you point an MX directly to an ip? i.e.:
...
MX 5 206.58.96.4
Joe
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