NS record points to CNAME record

[Robert Messinger]

Nope,

All NS records must either be an IP or an A record.

CNAME records can only be pointed to A records. (You can not have
an alias to an alias.)

MX work the same way as NS records.

A records can only be IPs.


On 6 Apr 2002, Todd wrote:

> 
> If the subject comfused anyone, sorry. Don't know exactly how to
> phrase the question. But basically here is the issue i have going on
> in my DNS. I just want to clarify if this can be done:
> 
> ;-------------------------------------------------------------------
> ;
> ;       Nameservers
> 
>                 IN      NS      ns1.traumatized.net.
> 
> ;-------------------------------------------------------------------
> ;
> ;       Mail Exchanger
>                 IN      MX      10      mail.traumatized.net.
> ;
> traumatized.net         IN      A       24.207.128.80
> ;
> ;
> ;-------------------------------------------------------------------
> ;       Canonicals
> ;
> ns1             IN      CNAME           mail.traumatized.net.
> ;
> ;-------------------------------------------------------------------
> ;
> localhost       IN      A               127.0.0.1
> ;
> 
> OK, now the actual machine name this resides on is
> mail.traumatized.net. But the NS record points to ns1.traumatized.net.
> So, in order for this to work, I put in the line "ns1 IN CNAME
> mail.traumatized.net". Can I do this? I think i can but i just want
> clarification. thanks
>