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Re: DNS: MX and CNAME records

From: Octavio Alvarez <alvarezp(at)alvarezp.ods.org>
Date: Sun Jul 15 2007 - 16:28:22 EDT

On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:43:31 -0700, Michael Loftis <mloftis@modwest.com> wrote:

>> my understanding of CNAME records is that an MX may not be a CNAME
>> record, but I thought something like
>
> Think of a CNAME like a symlink. If you have a CNAME it's the ONLY
> record that can exist, it points lookups at the data for the target.

What if a domain's website is hosted on a dynamic IP, and the mail is hosted on a different server than the website is?

-- 
Octavio.


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