CNAME stuff in Bind8.2

[Michael Voight]

Why not just make it another A record.
You can NOT have a CNAME record for a name if other records exist for
that name. 

Michael

"Pandit, Tushar" wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to get my bind 8.2 started and this is the error that I am getting:
> 
> Aug  3 14:34:56 altair4 named[2547]:<3.5> webo.hosts:224:oa.webo.dg.com: CNAME a
> nd OTHER data error
> 
> The data in the db file for the above domain looks like this:
> 
> oa.webo.dg.com.         IN      MX      10      magellan.webo.dg.com.
> oa.webo.dg.com.         IN      MX      20      dg-webo.webo.dg.com.
> 
> oa.webo.dg.com. IN      CNAME   stacks.webo.dg.com.
> 
> This was working fine in Bind 4.9.7. At least it did not reject the zone. I am not sure if this
> is violation of RFC 1034, but seems like Bind8.2 doesn't like it and rejects the master zone.
> 
> Is there any other way that this shud be specified ? I would like to keep the CNAME record, as
> it is going to used by sendmail.
> 
> Any suggestions ?
> 
> Thanks much.
> 
> --
> Tushar