Re: When should one use MX records?

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From: Mark Bixby
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 23:25

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In article <BvtKy7.4qr@rahul.net> dhesi@rahul.net (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>b: You may have trouble having a CNAME record that makes company.uk an
>   alias for foo.company.uk.  I don't think the name server software
>   (at least under SunOS) allows this.  However, you can have an
>   additional A record that gives company.uk the same IP address as
>   foo.company.uk.  If you order the A records appropriately, the
>   primary name can be foo.company.uk, but mail will still get
>   correctly delivered when addressed to company.uk.

This is also the case for HPUX.  A CNAME to create company.uk would hang the
resolver software.  I had to take the approach of creating an A record as
described above.
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From: markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Mark Bixby)
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Subject: Re: When should one use MX records?
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