[Gllug] DNS question

[Martin A. Brooks]

On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 08:52 +0000, Alain Williams wrote:
> I wanted to give a box several names, so I used CNAMEs:
> 
> foo		IN	CNAME	bar
> 		IN	MX 10	foo
> 
> Accessing the machine (eg ssh), no problems. But when I asked DNS for it's MX
> record all that I ever got back was:
> 
> 	foo.phcomp.co.uk is an alias for bar.phcomp.co.uk.

Which is entirely correct.


> foo		IN	CNAME	1.2.3.4
> 		IN	MX 10	foo

A CNAME can't be an IP address.  It'd be helpful if you used the actual
hostnames involved, that way I could do some external tests to see
what's going on directly.

-- 
Martin A. Brooks <martin at clues.ltd.uk>
Clues Ltd

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