root(@) with CNAME record help

Marc C Storck marc at storck.org
Tue Sep 18 17:12:09 UTC 2001


This was covered at least 300000000000000000000 times perhaps I missed one 
or two but the number is as large!
Read the archive!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Answer below:




root (@) CAN NOT HAVE A CNAME RECORD

THEIR IS NO WAY TO TELL BIND TO ACCEPT IT!

Marc

At 18:52 18.09.01 +0200, Escario Julien wrote:

>Hello,
>I'm running BIND 8.2.2 for a few month and just want to have my adress
>asylog.net directed to ip 193.246.250.178
>
>Here's the complete db file (just if someone can say me why $ttl line is
>needed ..)
>What's wrong ? because when I restart bind I get the famous error : CNAME
>and other data. (but there's only a SOA and a CNAME records for @);
>
>$ttl 86400
>@        IN        SOA        primary.asylog.net. admin.asylog.net. (
>                         2001090404
>                         10800
>                         3600
>                         604800
>                         86400 )
>
>           IN          NS          primary.asylog.net.
>           IN          NS          secondary.asylog.net.
>           IN      MX  10  secondary.asylog.net.
>
>primary          IN          A          193.246.250.178
>secondary IN      A       193.246.250.179
>
>@         IN      A       193.246.250.178
>mail      IN      CNAME   secondary.asylog.net.
>webmail   IN      CNAME   secondary.asylog.net.
>pop       IN      CNAME   secondary.asylog.net.
>imap      IN      CNAME   secondary.asylog.net.
>smtp      IN      CNAME   secondary.asylog.net.
>*         IN      CNAME   primary.asylog.net.
>@         IN      CNAME   primary.asylog.net.
>
>When I comment the last line and reload bind is happy.
>Thanks

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