From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 4 21:59:25 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA10654 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 21:59:25 -0800 Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA10646 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 21:59:02 -0800 Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA16984; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 21:57:20 -0800 Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 21:57:20 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: OK to use CNAME? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello! The University told us that if we wanted to run a nameserver for ourselves (for Residence Networking), then we had to do so without using CNAMEs. Could someone shed some light on why this belief would be true, that the use of CNAMEs is frowned upon? Background: We want to use them so there is no question when a reverse-nameserve request is done, which machine they are referring to. We use static IP addressing when giving students IPs, and a name has been stock-assigned to the IP, ie if the IP is 128.223.170.164 then the name is riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley is the hall name). We were going to create a nameserver for putting on student's names so we didn't have to bug the Computing Center if we wanted to get a name added or changed. We would just add a CNAME record from the new name (dwhite.resnet.uoregon.edu) to the name in the central nameserver (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu). Thanks for any information you can provide. Doug White | Student, University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Major: Computer Science http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Eugene/Spfld BBS List Publisher