Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 00:22:19 -0800 From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> Cc: Chris Angell <root@chrisangell.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS related question Message-ID: <39FE813B.99A16D4A@gorean.org> References: <200010302232.e9UMWwI53220@fedde.littleton.co.us>
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Chris Fedde wrote:
>
> 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.
It's slightly more correct (and less confusing) to say that the right
side of an NS record should be a hostname. Calling it an A record might
lead someone to believe that they can point NS records at IP addresses.
Doug
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