From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 11 12:18:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA19640 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 12:18:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hemi.com (hemi.com [204.132.158.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA19635 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 12:18:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mbarkah@localhost) by hemi.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA27878; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 13:18:08 -0600 (MDT) From: Ade Barkah Message-Id: <199610111918.NAA27878@hemi.com> Subject: Re: Site maintainers for subdomains under freebsd.org - please read! To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 13:18:08 -0600 (MDT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <824.845039160@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 11, 96 06:06:00 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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..freebsd.org > > Your main name server. If you have secondaries, they > should be ns2..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 - -------------------------------------------------------------------