Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 13:18:08 -0600 (MDT) From: Ade Barkah <mbarkah@hemi.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Site maintainers for subdomains under freebsd.org - please read! Message-ID: <199610111918.NAA27878@hemi.com> In-Reply-To: <824.845039160@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 11, 96 06:06:00 am
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> The following CNAMEs should be in place, just to make it easier > for us to figure out name server topology when things are broken: > > ns.<dom>.freebsd.org > > Your main name server. If you have secondaries, they > should be ns2.<dom>.freebsd.org, ns3... and so on. Nameservers should never be CNAMEs. They should have an A entry instead. A typical query might run as follows: # dig freebsd.org ns ... ;; ANSWERS: freebsd.org. 152687 NS NS2.CRL.COM. freebsd.org. 152687 NS DNS.IBE.NET. ... ;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS: NS2.CRL.COM. 169185 A 165.113.1.37 DNS.IBE.NET. 169185 A 194.179.128.1 ... Notice that there is an 'A' record listed for each nameserver. If a nameserver had used a CNAME instead, then its IP address wont be listed (since there is no 'A' record), and thus it will not be queried by resolvers. Regards, -Ade Barkah ------------------------------------------------------------------- Inet: mbarkah@hemi.com - HEMISPHERE ONLINE - <http://www.hemi.com/>; -------------------------------------------------------------------
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