On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 01:28:22PM -0700, Octavio Alvarez wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:43:31 -0700, Michael Loftis <mloftis@modwest.com> > wrote: > >Think of a CNAME like a symlink. If you have a CNAME it's the ONLY > >record that can exist, it points lookups at the data for the target. > > What if a domain's website is hosted on a dynamic IP, and the mail is > hosted on a different server than the website is? Putting aside the inadvisability of hosting a web site on a dynamic IP address, dynamically updating: @ IN A 1.2.3.4 would not affect the other record: @ IN MX 5 bar These are two different DNS records. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting Encrypted mail welcome - keyid 0x604DE5DB
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