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

[Jim Kinney]

His leg may be broken but his mind is working fine!
A name <-> C name loop is bad 'm'kay?!

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
> 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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