Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 02:31:14 -0400 From: Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com> To: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>, Troy Settle <troy@picus.com> Cc: webmaster@wmptl.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IP vs CNAME Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20000604022838.0195f9b8@mail.enterit.com> In-Reply-To: <3939F2FD.DA1EEDFA@gorean.org> References: <FCEELIAEIIECDGKKJLMIMECHCAAA.troy@picus.com>
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At 11:11 PM 6/3/00 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: >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? He's right. This zone file as-is won't work. You have no A names here!! Also, it appears you are using version 4.x syntax. This zone file would never do for a current version of bind. You have the origin specified to point to webhost.isp.net. Unless you have an A record somewhere in another zone this will not work. -Jim > 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today's errors, in contrast: Windows - "Invalid page fault in module kernel32.dll at 0032:A16F2935" UNIX - "segmentation fault - core dumped" Humanous Beingsus - "OOPS, I've fallen and I can't get up" ------------------------------- Jim Conner NOTJames jconner@enterit.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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