Re: EMail servers fail when domain.com is a cname alias not an IP

2002-02-05 Thread dman
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:35:22PM -0600, hanasaki wrote: | Why is it that when the default for a domain. For example, in my case, | hanaden.com maps to a cname, MTA's fail I believe that part of an RFC states that MX records can only point to IP addresses or A records but not to CNAME records.

EMail servers fail when domain.com is a cname alias not an IP

2002-02-05 Thread hanasaki
Why is it that when the default for a domain. For example, in my case, hanaden.com maps to a cname, MTA's fail ex: hanaden.com mx IP ... no problem hanaden.com mx somename.domainD.org ... email for [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes to [EMAIL PROTECTED] not ... [EMA