Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 00:22:19 -0800 From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> Cc: Chris Angell <root@chrisangell.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS related question Message-ID: <39FE813B.99A16D4A@gorean.org> References: <200010302232.e9UMWwI53220@fedde.littleton.co.us>
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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
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