cname quick question

[Cricket Liu]

> right, this is the current behaviour of BIND
>
> EXAMPLE:
>
> $origin whatever.com.
> .......
> www in cname www.yahoo.com.
>
> nslookup -type=soa www.whatever.com
>
> primary name server = za.akadns.net ????
>
> seems misleading/incorrect for the soa to be yahoo's in some cases and the
> local one in other cases (IXFR's)

There is no SOA record for www.whatever.com.  It's an alias, so it can't
have any other records associated with it.

cricket