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> Someone has stated that their new "bind" is complaining about my
> use of an alias record as the name of my DNS server.
> 
> This is a bogus thing for it to do, since it is imperitive that
> you be able to use a DNS rotor for DNS services, if you have
> equivalent servers for reasons of fault tolerance.

I'm afraid I don't think you understand how multiple NS RRs work.

> So I could live without the latest "bind" being in wide use until
> that is corrected so that I can once again have my DNS server
> have as high an availability as many WWW servers... I happen
> to think DNS is a tad more important.  8-|.

As somebody has pointed out, this is not somehing new in the latest
version of BIND. There are good reasons why you shouldn't have an
alias at the right hand side of an NS RR, and this is not likely to
be "corrected".

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no