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<br>Why / how does this work?<br><br>dig -t any www.careerone.com.au @ns2.tmpw.net.<br><br>; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-20.P1.el5_8.2 <<>> -t any www.careerone.com.au @ns2.tmpw.net.<br>;; global options: printcmd<br>;; Got answer:<br>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 15513<br>;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 3<br><br>;; QUESTION SECTION:<br>;www.careerone.com.au. IN ANY<br><br>;; ANSWER SECTION:<br>www.careerone.com.au. 2560 IN SOA ns1.tmpw.net. hostmaster.tmpw.net. 1347892090 16384 2048 1048576 2560<br>www.careerone.com.au. 14400 IN NS ns1.tmpw.net.<br>www.careerone.com.au. 14400 IN NS ns2.tmpw.net.<br>www.careerone.com.au. 14400 IN NS ns3.tmpw.net.<br><font style="" color="#FF0000">www.careerone.com.au. 600 IN CNAME www.careerone.com.au.edgesuite.net.</font><br><br>;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:<br>ns1.tmpw.net. 3600 IN A 208.71.198.33<br>ns2.tmpw.net. 3600 IN A 63.121.30.233<br>ns3.tmpw.net. 3600 IN A 208.71.198.34<br><br>;; Query time: 81 msec<br>;; SERVER: 63.121.30.233#53(63.121.30.233)<br>;; WHEN: Tue Sep 18 08:48:30 2012<br>;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 240<br><br><br>I thought a cname record can't coexist with any other records in a zone file. How does this even get loaded this way? What results should the owners of this domain expect? I assume they'll be inconsistent and problematic. Right?<br><br>Thanks!<br><br><br><br><br> </div></body>
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