From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 20 17:50:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt052n3e.san.rr.com (dt052n3e.san.rr.com [204.210.33.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C7AC37B81E for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:50:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt052n3e.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA13507; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:50:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:50:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt052n3e.san.rr.com To: Damon Hammis Cc: "Jonathan E. Lyons" , Randy Katz , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Simple DNS Question(Kinda :) ) with "." In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Damon Hammis wrote: > Ok...it would appear that I goofed. This is part of the reason why I > think CNAMEs are evil. :) > > What happens when you put this line just below your MX record? > > IN CNAME cluster.bswift.com. Gah. I tried to cancel that one. Whose idea was it to put cancel next to send in pine anyway? I started with a joking response and realized that this might have been dealt with in the previous thread. In any case, you cannot have a CNAME for a domain name. For any given host you can have cname records, OR other records, but not both. Since you have to have an SOA and NS records for a domain at least, you cannot have a CNAME records along with that. HTH, Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message