[ale] Why ALE hated my email and how I fixed it

Michael H. Warfield mhw at WittsEnd.com
Thu Nov 19 15:09:25 EST 2009


On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 14:43 -0500, Sean McNealy wrote: 
> Maybe it's because I don't know a lot about DNS, but did you make a
> CNAME of your domain point to itself?  And if that's what's going on
> (and I think someone will probably say why that's not), why?

> bronosky.com.    IN    CNAME    bronosky.com.

Is that even valid?  No, it can't be.  For one thing, that would
prohibit MX records or A records for that name.  You can't mix CNAME
records with other resource types.

Regards,
Mike
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