CNAME Definition

Erik Aronesty erik at primedata.org
Mon Feb 5 15:08:32 UTC 2001


Or maybe BIND was right from the very beginning and the RFC's were wrong?

		- erik

-----Original Message-----
From:	asenec at senechalle.net [SMTP:asenec at senechalle.net]
Sent:	Saturday, February 03, 2001 8:43 PM
To:	comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
Subject:	Re: CNAME Definition

Thanks to all who responded.  We've apparently
been doing it wrong since time began, but earlier
versions of bind were more forgiving.

Annette
> From bind-users-bounce at isc.org Sat Feb  3 19:30 CST 2001
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> From: Thor Kottelin <thor at anta.net>
> Subject: Re: CNAME Definition
> Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 00:18:49 +0200
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> 
> asenec at senechalle.net wrote:
> 
> > myownjunk IN   SOA  ns.theaccount.com. hostmaster.theaccount.com. (
> >                 2001020312 86400 7200 3600000 172800 )
> >                 IN  NS  ns.theaccount.com
> >                 IN  NS  ns2.theaccount.com
> >                 IN  CNAME   asenec.com.
> 
> "If a CNAME RR is present at a node, no other data should be present ---"
> - RFC 1034
> 
> <URL:http://www.acmebw.com/askmrdns/bind-messages.htm#idx_c> - scroll down
> to "CNAME and other data (invalid)"
> 
> <URL:http://www.acmebw.com/askmrdns/00014.htm>,
> <URL:http://www.acmebw.com/askmrdns/00269.htm>
> 
> Thor
> 
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