Allow Multiple-Cnames in BIND 9

Jim Reid jim at rfc1035.com
Fri Nov 30 00:42:51 UTC 2001


>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Manning <bmanning at ISI.EDU> writes:

    Bill> 	bind 9 encourages consistant practice, sometimes w/o
    Bill> anything other than "it ought to work this way".  The core
    Bill> specs are often vauge, which leads to commentary &
    Bill> clarifications.

That's as may be. But RFC1034 could hardly be any clearer about
multiple CNAMEs:

    If a CNAME RR is present at a node, no other data should be present

As far as I know this has only been relaxed by RFC2535 so that a CNAME
can have a SIG and NXT record.


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