Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 18:30:33 -0700 From: "Raymundo M. Vega" <RaymundoVega@home.com> To: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: Damon Hammis <squirrel@hammis.com>, "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net>, Randy Katz <randyk@ccsales.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Simple DNS Question(Kinda :) ) with "." Message-ID: <3977A7B9.931B8F98@home.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007201747430.13313-100000@dt052n3e.san.rr.com>
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Doug Barton wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Damon Hammis wrote: > > > Ok...it would appear that I goofed. This is part of the reason why I > > think CNAMEs are evil. :) > > > > What happens when you put this line just below your MX record? > > > > IN CNAME cluster.bswift.com. > > Gah. I tried to cancel that one. Whose idea was it to put cancel > next to send in pine anyway? I started with a joking response and realized > that this might have been dealt with in the previous thread. > > In any case, you cannot have a CNAME for a domain name. For any > given host you can have cname records, OR other records, but not > both. Since you have to have an SOA and NS records for a domain at least, > you cannot have a CNAME records along with that. Listen guys, read RFC1912, it is a great document about common mistakes when configuring a DNS, tthe subject of this tread is covered in page 5. Please read it. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1912.txt?number=1912 raymundo > > HTH, > > Doug > -- > "Live free or die" > - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire > > Do YOU Yahoo!? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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