From: Meng Weng Wong (no email)
Date: Thu Nov 01 2001 - 00:01:54 EST
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 08:32:19PM +0000, Hamish Marson wrote:
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| FWIW The Cricket book recommends using only canonical names in MX
| records, never aliases... But either will (usually) work.
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This is an assertion which I have never seen properly justified.
While I personally don't do MX->CNAME simply because it
seems to be so extremely unfashionable as to invite negative
karma, as an academic exercise I would like to invite
discussion on whether, with modern DNS, it really should
continue to be an Internet bugbear.
In brief, MX->CNAME is frowned upon because it can cause
problems under a certain set of circumstances; but when
those circumstances are easily avoided, does there remain a
reason to deprecate it?
http://www.mengwong.com/misc/rfc1912-is-wrong.html
If an unassailable rebuttal is found I will be happy to
recant my argument and lay the question to rest for good.
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