On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Joseph Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's been a long time since I've had to look it up, but the rule had always > been that MX records do NOT point to CNAMEs.
Joseph is right here. MX records must not point to a CNAME but to an A record. Good example: example.com. MX 10 mail.example.com. mail.example.com. A 123.123.123.123 Bad example: example.com. MX 10 mail.example.com. mail.example.com. CNAME example.com. example.com. A 123.123.123.123 Besides this MX example, using CNAMEs is a good thing, it makes management of the records much simpler. For simple/small domains I usually just assign the root of the domain an A record, and CNAME everything else to it. @ A 123.123.123.123 MX 10 @ www CNAME @ mail CNAME @ For more complex domains use A records for actual server names, and create CNAMEs for each service on the server. server1 A 123.123.123.123 server2 A 234.234.234.234 mail CNAME server1 www CNAME server2 secure CNAME server2 db CNAME server1 ... This strategy makes moving services among servers very simple, and changing an IP of a server very simple as well. _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
