[thelist] DNS and MX record woes

John Handelaar john at evolt.org.uk
Tue Nov 19 14:00:01 CST 2002


On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 19:41, .jeff wrote:
> john,
>
> > 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.
> ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><
>
> 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.

If it's any consolation, and providing that the MX record
points to adultdvdtoday.com, as do all the subdomains as
CNAME records, then changing only the A record for
adultdvdtoday.com would have the same effect for that
entire domain.


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