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Date:      Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:14:23 -0500
From:      "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net>
To:        "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>, Damon Hammis <squirrel@hammis.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Simple DNS Question(Kinda :) ) 
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.20000719141423.00a7f640@midwest.net>
In-Reply-To: <200007191841.e6JIfgU07707@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <Your message of "Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:27:24 EDT."             <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007191426320.82418-100000@markl.com>

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In a word..... Bummer........ :(


Thanks for the help...

At 11:41 AM 7/19/00 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:27:24 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: Damon Hammis <squirrel@hammis.com>
>> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>> 
>> Change this:
>> 
>> > bswift.com	IN	CNAME 	cluster.bswift.com.
>> 
>> to this:
>> 
>> bswift.com.    IN      CNAME   cluster.bswift.com.
>
>No, I'm afraid not. As we saw, bswift.com is the domain, so this would
>lead to an illegal case where you have a CNAME and some other RR.
>
>The normal way to do this is
>
>	       IN    A	  [address of cluster.bswift.com]
>
>There is nothing wrong with multiple A records, but CNAME is processed
>differently from all other RRs and doing what you are trying will
>simply not work correctly.
>


Jonathan E. Lyons 		
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