Can an NS point to a CNAME

Matus UHLAR - fantomas uhlar at fantomas.sk
Fri Aug 13 07:49:45 UTC 2010


On 12.08.10 17:07, Phil Mayers wrote:
> Thanks, but perhaps I should be more specific about what I'm asking:
>
> Is it still the case that *Bind* will not follow a delegation where an  
> NS record points at a CNAME?
>
> In any event, as has been pointed out to me, the zone is broken - I have  
> contacted the hostmaster - but I was curious that Bind did not appear to  
> be following the delegation *and* did not appear to be logging an error  
> (which may be my logging configuration).

I have just tested on 4 of our nameservers (their real ips behind
loadbalancer) and two of them timed out. It seems that direct delegation
of rhbnc.ac.uk is/was broken too.

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