Bind Newbie has questions about CNAMEs

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 05:46:00PM -0600, Michael Schwager wrote:
> In the article to which I am replying, barmar at bbnplanet.com spanks 
> schwager at enteract.com in this fashion...
> > Come on, if this isn't one of *the* most FAQ's, I don't know what is.  I
> > just answered someone else 2 minutes ago.  Doesn't *anyone* read FAQs any
> > more?
> 
> Sure, if they exist.  "bind faq" search at Yahoo returns one tiny little 
> paper.  A search of the Usenet FAQ's at RTFM reveals nothing.  You wanna 
> tell where it is, or are you happier complaining about it?

Just to help you understand:

1) the Internet "requests for comments" (RFCs) - which are more tightly
binding than that mild name sounds - are the source of intrinsic
information on Internet protocols.

2) There is no BIND protocol.  That's the name of the reference
protocol of the Domain Name Service (DNS) protocols.  Some of the base
RFCs are

1034 Domain names - concepts and facilities. P.V. Mockapetris.
     Nov-01-1987. (Format: TXT=129180 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC0973, RFC0882,
     RFC0883) (Updated by RFC1101, RFC1183, RFC1348, RFC1876, RFC1982,
     RFC2065, RFC2181, RFC2308, RFC2535) (Also STD0013) (Status: STANDARD)

1035 Domain names - implementation and specification. P.V.
     Mockapetris. Nov-01-1987. (Format: TXT=125626 bytes) (Obsoletes
     RFC0973, RFC0882, RFC0883) (Updated by RFC1101, RFC1183, RFC1348,
     RFC1876, RFC1982, RFC1995, RFC1996, RFC2065, RFC2136, RFC2181,
     RFC2137, RFC2308, RFC2535, RFC2845) (Also STD0013) (Status: STANDARD)

with specific updates by all of the above RFCs, plus specific
clarification by

2181 Clarifications to the DNS Specification. R. Elz, R. Bush. July
     1997. (Format: TXT=36989 bytes) (Updates RFC1034, RFC1035, RFC1123)
     (Updated by RFC2535) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)

3) Some interesting sites to gather more information are:

http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/
http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/docs/
your-bind-source-directory/doc/arm/Bv9ARM.html
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/titletoc.html
http://www.acmebw.com/askmr.htm
http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html
http://www.intac.com/~cdp/cptd-faq/	[comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains FAQ]
http://www.faqs.org/
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dns4/
http://www.menandmice.com/

Hope this helps.  ;-)  And that you don't think that this mailing list
is TOTALLY worthless, just because one of the people posting to it was
having a bad day.  Sometimes, it DOES seem that there are a number of
people all asking the same question at once!

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Joe Yao				jsdy at center.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
OSIS Center Systems Support					EMT-B
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