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From: "Raymundo M. Vega" <RaymundoVega@home.com>
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To: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
Cc: Damon Hammis <squirrel@hammis.com>,
	"Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net>,
	Randy Katz <randyk@ccsales.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Simple DNS Question(Kinda :) ) with "."
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Doug Barton wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Damon Hammis wrote:
> 
> > Ok...it would appear that I goofed.  This is part of the reason why I
> > think CNAMEs are evil. :)
> >
> > What happens when you put this line just below your MX record?
> >
> > IN    CNAME   cluster.bswift.com.
> 
>         Gah. I tried to cancel that one. Whose idea was it to put cancel
> next to send in pine anyway? I started with a joking response and realized
> that this might have been dealt with in the previous thread.
> 
>         In any case, you cannot have a CNAME for a domain name.  For any
> given host you can have cname records, OR other records, but not
> both. Since you have to have an SOA and NS records for a domain at least,
> you cannot have a CNAME records along with that.

Listen guys, read RFC1912, it is a great document about common
mistakes when configuring a DNS, tthe subject of this tread
is covered in page 5. Please read it.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1912.txt?number=1912

raymundo
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Doug
> --
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