On 2013-10-18 04:46, Doug wrote:
Hello,

$ idig plus.google.com mx
plus.google.com.    1200    IN    CNAME    plus-china.l.google.com.
plus-china.l.google.com. 600 IN MX 40 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com. plus-china.l.google.com. 600 IN MX 50 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com.
plus-china.l.google.com. 600    IN    MX    10 aspmx.l.google.com.
plus-china.l.google.com. 600 IN MX 20 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com. plus-china.l.google.com. 600 IN MX 30 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.

I never saw this type of MX.  Are they valid records?
...


Doug,

This is fine. What would be bad is having a CNAME associated with the other side:

mail.domain.ex.         MX      10 bad.mailer.ex.
bad.mailer.ex.          CNAME   real.mailer.ex.

Cf. RFC 1912, 2.4 CNAME records.


Joe Yao
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