Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 11:25:53 -0400 From: "Troy Settle" <troy@picus.com> To: "Doug Barton" <Doug@gorean.org>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: IP vs CNAME Message-ID: <FCEELIAEIIECDGKKJLMIIECICAAA.troy@picus.com> In-Reply-To: <3939F2FD.DA1EEDFA@gorean.org>
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** > @ 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. ** Ya know, I hate being wrong, but when I am, I get to eat that tasty crow. I tried that zone as-is (as well as a supporting 'isp.net' zone). It did not work, giving an errors: domain.com:5:domain.com: CNAME and OTHER data error I'm confused. I KNOW there's nothing wrong with the SOA. I checked that by itself by loading the zone with an A record instead of a CNAME for the origin. It worked fine. When I changed it back to a CNAME, it bitched and refused to load. I'm not sure I understand the difference, or why the authors of BIND decided that a CNAME on a zone file was a BAD thing. But, that's ok... now I know it won't work, and I'll live with it. It is funny that this is not in the named man page, nor do I remember seeing it in the cricket book. I'll be sure to check this coming week. ** > 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. The fact is, I *know* I used CNAME on the origin back in 95 or 96 when I had limited resources. When I actually started putting this crap into practice in late 96, I had enough IPs that I didn't have to screw around that 'new' name-based virtual hosting crap. Each domain got it's own IP. The post I had on this thread had minimal information because I didn't feel the need to expand on it. Mistake, there's yet *another* message from someone asking about the 'isp.net' zone and where it's information is at. To this person, I say "USE YOUR IMAGINATION." -Troy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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