[Pdns-users] CNAME / MX for @

[Imre Gergely]

What he said...

On 10/04/2010 09:53 AM, Erik Weber wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Mouncif Benniane <mouncifbb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am running pdns Version: 2.9.22-3 on ubuntu 10.0.4 with mysql backend
>> (poweradmin gui). I am trying to understand the following situation
>> I set:  @domain.com CNAME www1.externaldomain.com
>> Resolution works!
>> as soon I set: domain.com MX 10 mail.externaldomain.com
>> this doesn't work and returns: www1.externaldomain.com instead of
>> mail.externaldomain.com
> 
> Yeah, that's how it's supposed to work. Read
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNAME_record, specifically the
> 'Restrictions' part.
> 

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