From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 12 23:44:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.robhughes.com (12-237-138-77.client.attbi.com [12.237.138.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 25B2937B416 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:44:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 5389 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2002 06:44:17 -0000 Received: from hexch01.robhughes.com (192.168.1.3) by ns2.robhughes.com with SMTP; 13 Jun 2002 06:44:17 -0000 Received: from kahuna-ws.robhughes.com ([192.168.1.16]) by HEXCH01.robhughes.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905); Thu, 13 Jun 2002 01:44:15 -0500 Subject: Re: Is this BIND setup wrong? (Non-existent host/domain) From: Rob Hughes To: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1023949476.3d083aa4a394a@mail.broadpark.no> References: <1023949476.3d083aa4a394a@mail.broadpark.no> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-H2BHtGVdeYIF9UsAc0kO" X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 (1.0.5-2) Date: 13 Jun 2002 01:44:15 -0500 Message-Id: <1023950655.11653.17.camel@kahuna-ws.robhughes.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Jun 2002 06:44:15.0713 (UTC) FILETIME=[BC41D510:01C212A5] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=-H2BHtGVdeYIF9UsAc0kO Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 01:24, johann@broadpark.no wrote: > Hi. >=20 > I have reasons to believe this BIND setup is wrong; only ns1 resolves.=20 > Whether ns1 as A instead of muay, basing CNAME's off a @ -- none will=20 > function. >=20 Yes, it is wrong, at least according to standard practice. You shouldn't have a name server that's a cname record, and especially not a SOA record. The main reason for this is that name servers, above all others, should properly resolve, both forward and reverse. --=-H2BHtGVdeYIF9UsAc0kO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA9CD8//9y+qWKu6HERAo4OAJ4x7cyJrWdbXkAaMpPV2JF1qvYWfACdH2O9 Cese9IINvS3hF6KYlNUGZos= =oHZM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-H2BHtGVdeYIF9UsAc0kO-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message