From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 6 8:36: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.221.73.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2083C37B805 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 08:35:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.com ([10.0.0.168]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA49715; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 11:45:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <393D1A1C.D3C35785@wmptl.com> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 11:34:52 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican Reply-To: webmaster@wmptl.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IP vs CNAME References: <4.3.1.2.20000604022838.0195f9b8@mail.enterit.com> <393D16E4.D2E76C9A@wmptl.com> <20000606172900.A15502@mithrandr.moria.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > 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 No, you don't have to have any A records in a zonefile. In fact, you don't even have to have the zonefile for where the CNAME points to; your CNAME could point to a domain controlled by a different DNS server if you so wished it. -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message