The RFC or the reason why you can not create CNAME record for the "root record"

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

phil-news-nospam at ipal.net wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 05:12:06 -0500 Barry Margolin <barmar at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> | RFC 1034 says: "The domain system provides such a feature [aliases] 
> | using the canonical name (CNAME) RR.  A CNAME RR identifies its owner 
> | name as an alias, and specifies the corresponding canonical name in the 
> | RDATA section of the RR.  If a CNAME RR is present at a node, no other 
> | data should be present; this ensures that the data for a canonical name 
> | and its aliases cannot be different."
> | 
> | Since a delegated zone name is required to have SOA and NS records, if 
> | it also had a CNAME record it would violate the restriction in the last 
> | sentence.

> So how do we fix this?  I think a hack/patch is the only way.  But I see
> two different ways to approach that.  Which one is likely to work in most
> cases?

Can't you rewrite the contents of the zonefiles to refer to the 
new machines ? Present your zonefile and the functional changes
you need.



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