Re: turning off hostname rewriting?

From: Len Conrad (no email)
Date: Mon Dec 02 2002 - 08:22:34 EST


>since they map to aliases with other domain names. DO NOT use CNAME for
>MX records.

Do not use CNAME owners (aliases) in MX (or NS) ResourceDATA field (Right
Hand Side):

owner.domain. MX 10 mx.fully.qualified.domain.

.. means that you cannot also do this:

mx.fully.qualified.domain. CNAME some.domain.

>They must be fully qualified A records

???? :))

>in order to not break things.

MX (and NS) RDATA fields must be fully qualified, canonical domain names.

Simon, I know you know what you are talking about, but the DNS terms were a
little fuzzy. :))

Len








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