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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
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