I have never had a problem using a CNAME record over an A record, and
we have over 6000 domains that we host dns for...
> Hi - any DNS guru's on this list?
>
> when we set up the web admin scripts we noticed the default DNS that
was set
> up had the mail/smtp servers in as CNAME's , which, from our
experience can
> cause trouble with excessive recurrsion - lost emails etc - confusing
> sendmail (mind you what can't) etc. so we changed the scripts to put
> mail/smtp in as an 'A' record.
>
> however, we notice the windows GUI (lite version) does the same -
maybe it's
> easy to adapt :) anyone got any comments because I don't think it's
wise to
> have mail servers as a CNAME and I don't fancy editing each zone the
GUI
> set's up
>
> Gary
>
>
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