From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 0:23:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1767637B4CF for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 00:23:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from gorean.org (Studded@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA85057; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 00:22:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <39FE813B.99A16D4A@gorean.org> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 00:22:19 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-102 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Fedde Cc: Chris Angell , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS related question References: <200010302232.e9UMWwI53220@fedde.littleton.co.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Fedde wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:40:27 -0800 (PST) Chris Angell wrote: > +------------------ > | The line below pops up often in my dnslogs. Could anyone tell me what it > | is? > | > | Oct 30 13:33:01 www > | named[79]: ns_resp: query(30.1.206.167.in-addr.arpa) NS points to CNAME > | (NS1.CV.NET:) > +------------------ > > The zone file for NS1.CV.NET are misconfigured. NS records should > point to A records. But in this case it looks like the config is > NS record to CNAME record to A record. BIND and the RFC do not > like this. This is a pretty common mistake. It's slightly more correct (and less confusing) to say that the right side of an NS record should be a hostname. Calling it an A record might lead someone to believe that they can point NS records at IP addresses. Doug -- "The dead cannot be seduced." - Kai, "Lexx" Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message