From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 19 12:23:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chi1.nucleusconsulting.com (chi1.nucleusconsulting.com [207.250.168.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DABE837B76A for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 12:23:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parrothd@midwest.net) Received: from zippy2 (bsw001-ch14a12-11.arcommunications.net [64.16.214.140]) by chi1.nucleusconsulting.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id N91XP0G9; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:18:55 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000719141423.00a7f640@midwest.net> X-Sender: parrothd@midwest.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:14:23 -0500 To: "Kevin Oberman" , Damon Hammis From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" Subject: Re: Simple DNS Question(Kinda :) ) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200007191841.e6JIfgU07707@ptavv.es.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a word..... Bummer........ :( Thanks for the help... At 11:41 AM 7/19/00 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:27:24 -0400 (EDT) >> From: Damon Hammis >> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> >> Change this: >> >> > bswift.com IN CNAME cluster.bswift.com. >> >> to this: >> >> bswift.com. IN CNAME cluster.bswift.com. > >No, I'm afraid not. As we saw, bswift.com is the domain, so this would >lead to an illegal case where you have a CNAME and some other RR. > >The normal way to do this is > > IN A [address of cluster.bswift.com] > >There is nothing wrong with multiple A records, but CNAME is processed >differently from all other RRs and doing what you are trying will >simply not work correctly. > Jonathan E. Lyons parrothd@midwest.net ICQ # 14226912 A+, MCSE, CCNA, FreeBSD! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message