On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:59 AM, aurfalien <aurfal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Has any one had problems with mail clients were your DNS is like this; >>> >>> doman.com MX 50 mail.domain.com >>> domain.com MX 100 mail2.domain.com >>> >>> domain.com CNAME www.domain.com >>> >>> >> >> The short answer is you can't do that and expect it to work because you >> can't mix CNAME and other types of records for a hostname. It is simply an >> invalid configuration at a DNS level. >> >> Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNAME_record#Restrictions >> >> -- >> Benjamin Franz > > Forgot, i did allow this for a few weeks and mail broke as well as the wild > card SSL ceasing to work as it has; > > *.domain.com > domain.com > > At any rate, I will insist that mixing MX/CNAME will not be possible but > wanted to see if I missed something. > > Hence this seemingly basic posting t the list. I think the only clean approach is to give domain.com an A record pointing to something that can run a web server that does a client redirect to www.domain.com. And even then https will show an invalid cert before the redirect unless you have one specifically for domain.com. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
