From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 24 21:30:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9519637B401 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:30:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from FreeBSD.org (Studded@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA19854; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:30:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3A6FB9EC.AD60AE1E@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:30:20 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: william@hq.newdream.net Cc: parthasarathi biswas , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DNS References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG william@hq.newdream.net wrote: > > you can't have an MX record pointing to a CNAME This is partially correct. You can point an MX record to a CNAME, it won't be seen as an error to named. However, it is a violation of the protocol, and mail will fail silently because of the error. > you should probably use as few CNAMES as possible. This is definitely correct. > the reason you're getting the second error is simply due to the first This is definitely not right. > > test IN CNAME partha > > ;Mail Records > > IN MX 10 mail.master.com. The error is here. The lack of a host on the LHS tells named that the MX record belongs to test. However, as your DNS logs would have told you if you had looked at them, a record cannot have a CNAME and other data attached. Doug -- "Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory . . . lasts forever." -- Keanu Reeves as Shane Falco in "The Replacements" Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message