Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:55:05 +0200 From: "Len Conrad" <lconrad@Go2France.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: DNS Question Message-ID: <200910231855.AA1242890876@mail.Go2France.com>
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>> >All true, and I did not do a very good job of explaining it. My issue >> >was that we have requests to use a CNAME for the domain record. Such as >> >this. >> > >> >example.com CNAME otherdomain.com >> >www.example.com CNAME otherdomain.com >> > >> >I was taught this was not good form >> >> worse, it's illegal. > > >how is this illegal? CNAME rule: a node with a CNAME cannot contain any other records. for the node domain.tld: domain.tld. soa ... domain.tld. ns ... domain.tld. cname otherdomain.tld. this node has a CNAME and "other data", so it's illegal, no matter what you want to do, or what makes sense to you, or what is convenient for you. Len
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