I have
mydomain.com. MX 10 mail.mydomain.com.
mydomain.com. A 1.2.3.4
www.mydomain.com A 1.2.3.4
mail.mydomain.com. A 1.2.3.6
I don't know if this is legal or not, but this has been woorking fine for more than 3
years, (and I was never arrested :))
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 19:56:20 -0400
>
>>Tied to send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>MX for mydomain point to xxx.xxx.xxx.xx6
>>
>>but I have a alias in my DNS setting that point to adress xxx.xxx.xxx.xx4
>>so users can access http://mydomain.com (without www)
>
>Do you have:
>
>mydomain.com. MX 10 mail.mydomain.com.
>mydomain.com. CNAME www.mydomain.com.
>mail.mydomain.com. A 1.2.3.4
>www.mydomain.com A 1.2.3.6
>
>?
>
>If so, that's illegal. For any give fully qualified domain name
>(mydomain.com, for example), if you have a CNAME, you can't have any other
>DNS entries. So it is illegal to have both an MX and CNAME entry for
>mydomain.com.
>
> -Scott
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