cname quick question

[Erik Aronesty]

No, most "folks would know that CNAMES cannot exist with other record types
and would understand that the MX record would be retrieved from the
canonical name.

        - Erik

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Knowles" <brad.knowles at skynet.be>
To: "glen herrmannsfeldt" <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu>;
<comp-protocols-dns-bind at uunet.uu.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: cname quick question


>
> At 6:09 PM +0000 3/7/01, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
>
> >  It seems that there are political reasons for not doing that, but
> >  in that case it would not be the same name as another record because
> >  there would NOT be an NS or SOA record for the name.
> >
> >  I agree that CNAME at the top of a zone does not work.
>
> Right, but surely most folks who would want to take advantage of
> this kind of feature would want to be able to get mail to the aliased
> domain, which would also break because of the "no other records" rule.
>
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