From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 5 15:45:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CBEC37B72A for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 15:45:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 139wpp-000AYN-00; Wed, 05 Jul 2000 22:35:57 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.15 #1) id 139wpp-000DGl-00; Wed, 05 Jul 2000 22:35:57 +0100 Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 22:35:57 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Nathan Vidican Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: exchange a CNAME for an MX? Message-ID: <20000705223557.P13714@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <39639557.6D48621B@wmptl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MM5RgFPKyuP3gDcV" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39639557.6D48621B@wmptl.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --MM5RgFPKyuP3gDcV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Nathan Vidican wrote: > IN MX 100 mail.govital.net. > IN CNAME web001.govital.net. A CNAME will only work if there are *NO* other records for the host it is defined for, AFAIK. Buy the O'Reilly DNS book if you're doing anything more with DNS than running it locally for a small network. (which is all I do with it, hence "AFAIK" above :-) --=20 Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D --MM5RgFPKyuP3gDcV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: pSQpK9sDPHSmi8PPORmDpSLPEIws2xmM iQCVAwUBOWOqPCsPVtiZOS99AQHOewQAgikObkOBjf082zWw9tXUnDO5tjl6PJXe I59EqDfqzZ5IbgRMo6YEKHv3wCqBxHhU/e1uROxau1K0BfcULf/pclIEhanCjyag spnC29pqyVxw2Ioomst4VUCcw3V4JvTETPxxormHM6qeJvMq7Im2vnK1i4FiWieG Ls7/p5Hd/Ns= =J5F2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MM5RgFPKyuP3gDcV-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message