CNAME invalid - why?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <389ED7BA.63016535 at wanadoo.fr>, toto  <toto at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>try to put his line :
>blah-lists       IN      CNAME          blah-info.mydomain.net.

What's the difference?  Your version simply includes the domain suffix that
will be appended automatically in his version, because of the $ORIGIN
directive.  It doesn't solve the "CNAME and other data" problem.  We
answered that part of the problem last week.

>Best regards
>
>
>Jeff Newton a écrit :
>
>> I recently upgraded to 8.2.2p5 from Bind4.  Ever since, I have been
>> getting "...mydomain.net has CNAME and other data (invalid)" in syslog
>> for the following record:
>>
>> $TTL 86400
>> $ORIGIN mydomain.net.
>> @       IN      SOA     ns1.mydomain.net. mail.mydomain.net.(
>>                         2000013101; Serial - yymmddnn
>>                         21600   ; Refresh - 120 minutes
>>                         604800  ; Expire - 1000 hours
>>                         86400 ) ; Minimum - 24 hours
>>
>>         IN      NS      ns1.mydomain.net.
>>         IN      MX  10  mail.mydomain.net.
>>
>>
>> blah-info        IN      A              10.10.10.1
>> blah-lists       IN      CNAME          blah-info
>>
>>
>> Can someone explain to me why the above is invalid and how to get
>> around this?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> ----
>> Jeff Newton
>> Security Analyst
>> PMC-Sierra Inc.
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