Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 23:11:09 -0700 From: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> To: Troy Settle <troy@picus.com> Cc: webmaster@wmptl.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IP vs CNAME Message-ID: <3939F2FD.DA1EEDFA@gorean.org> References: <FCEELIAEIIECDGKKJLMIMECHCAAA.troy@picus.com>
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Troy Settle wrote: > Oh man... you like to pick nits. The problem is, DNS is just that way. If you don't get it exactly right, it won't work. > I didn't think I'd have to go quite so > far as to bore everyone with an SOA record. But since you insist: > > @ IN SOA ns1.isp.net. hostmaster.isp.net. ( > 2000060401 10800 3600 3600000 86400 ) > IN MX 10 mailhost.isp.net. > IN MX 20 spooler.isp.net. > IN NS ns1.isp.net. > IN NS ns2.isp.net. > @ IN CNAME webhost.isp.net. > www IN CNAME webhost.isp.net. > mail IN CNAME mailhost.isp.net. > > Happy now? Nope. That won't work either. I reiterate: > ** you can't combine > ** CNAME RR's and other RR's for the same host. Try actually loading up a zone file that looks like that and you'll see what I mean. > Actually, I don't use CNAMEs that often, and never realized this. So why are we having this conversation? You obviously don't understand what I'm talking about, and you don't have enough background to be disagreeing with me. I'm not trying to be rude, but I hate seeing people give bad advice on a public list. Innocent users might be misled. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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