[thelist] DNS and MX record woes

[.jeff]

john,

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> From: John Handelaar
>
> On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 18:31, John Handelaar wrote:
> > 2)  My DNS kungfu isn't 100% either
>
> But GANDI's is.  And they just told me (while I was
> sorting out a different domain) that you can't
> have an MX record for something which is itself a
> CNAME.
>
> Change your entry for the root domain from a CNAME
> to an A record and all should be well.
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omg, that's not what i wanted to hear.  i prefer using a cname since that
means if my ip block changes (ip re-addressing, moving hosts, etc) i just
update the a record for thor.jeffhowden.com and all the domains that are on
that box get updated as well.  grrrrr.

.jeff

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