Help: setting a CNAME record for a domain

[Erik Aronesty]

> At 8:12 AM -0800 2/25/01, Tal Dayan wrote:
> >Also, if we go with the patch approach, what about our outsourced
secondary
> >DNS servers, will they know how to handle this ?
>
> They should, if they follow the spec, reject the AXFR'ed zones as invalid
> due to errors.

All versions prior to 8.2.2 will accept the AXFR'ed zones.  I think 8.2.3
rejects just the CNAME record itself for AXFR'ed zones - but I'm not sure.

>
> >And if this patch does not create a problem with the rest of the DNS
world,
> >how about submitting your patch to the Bind maintainers, asking to
include
> >this great feature with a runtime switch that enable / disabled it.
>
> I would call that a waste of energy as I doubt a patch to break the RFC
> will be very likely to be included in the src tarball... ;-)

Of course.  We'd have to submit a clarification to the RFC first.

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