From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jul 22 23:39:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA20892 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 23:39:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zet.internet.dk (zet.internet.dk [194.19.140.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA20859; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 23:38:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@internet.dk) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by zet.internet.dk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA18769; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 08:38:33 +0200 Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 08:38:33 +0200 (MET DST) From: domreg To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MX CNAME In-Reply-To: <199807230205.TAA15450@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > Leif Neland wrote: > > > > Why does named complain when a MX-record points to a CNAME? > > because its wrong. the RFC require that MX'es point > to A records, not CNAME records, to the best of my > memory. > "Because it is wrong" doesn't work with my kids either. What is the problem? Does it break anything? Should I go change all the ocurrences in all the domains we host? Or should I give mailhost the same ip-adress as the realhost instead of giving it a cname to realhost? Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message