[UPHPU] CNAME or A for MX value

[Joseph Scott]

On Jul 3, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:

> I have the following DNS record:
>
> example.com, MX, mail.example.com
>
>
> …then…
>
> mail.example.com, A, 192.168.1.1
>
>
> This works but would it be more proper to have the  
> "mail.example.com" record be a CNAME?



It's been a long time since I've had to look it up, but the rule had  
always been that MX records do NOT point to CNAMEs.

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