From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 30 14:33:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1A2A37B479 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:33:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from fedde (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.0/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id e9UMWwI53220; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:32:58 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200010302232.e9UMWwI53220@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Chris Angell Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS related question In-Reply-To: From: Chris Fedde Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:32:58 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:40:27 -0800 (PST) Chris Angell wrote: +------------------ | The line below pops up often in my dnslogs. Could anyone tell me what it | is? | | Oct 30 13:33:01 www | named[79]: ns_resp: query(30.1.206.167.in-addr.arpa) NS points to CNAME | (NS1.CV.NET:) +------------------ The zone file for NS1.CV.NET are misconfigured. NS records should point to A records. But in this case it looks like the config is NS record to CNAME record to A record. BIND and the RFC do not like this. This is a pretty common mistake. If it bugs you it can be turned off. Just take a look at the manual page for named.conf. Good luck chris -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message