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Date:      Tue, 6 Jun 2000 17:29:01 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com>
Cc:        Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IP vs CNAME
Message-ID:  <20000606172900.A15502@mithrandr.moria.org>
In-Reply-To: <393D16E4.D2E76C9A@wmptl.com>; from webmaster@wmptl.com on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 11:21:08AM -0400
References:  <FCEELIAEIIECDGKKJLMIMECHCAAA.troy@picus.com> <4.3.1.2.20000604022838.0195f9b8@mail.enterit.com> <393D16E4.D2E76C9A@wmptl.com>

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Responding to Jim:

On Tue 2000-06-06 (11:21), Nathan Vidican wrote:
> Jim Conner wrote:
> > > > @       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.
> > 
> > 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.

No, the problem appears to be that he's assigning a SOA record and a
CNAME record to the same thing.  CNAME records can't co-exist with other
record types, as far as I've read.

I'm pretty sure you needn't have any A records in a zone.

Neil
-- 
Neil Blakey-Milner
Sunesi Clinical Systems
nbm@mithrandr.moria.org


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