From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 0:45:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 700AA37B479 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 00:45:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id C644E6A901 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 09:45:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from sv.Go2France.com [212.73.210.79] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.04) id A81762B01B8; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 09:51:35 +0100 Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20001031093845.0656b760@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: lconrad%Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 09:45:09 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: DNS related question In-Reply-To: <39FE813B.99A16D4A@gorean.org> References: <200010302232.e9UMWwI53220@fedde.littleton.co.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. yes, calling the hostname an "A record" is really too sloppy for comfort. Venerable RFC 1035, page 17, the right side field in a MX-type resource record is called the "exchange-dname" : owner class ttl MX preference exchange-dname where best practice for exchange-dname is a FQDN, Fully Qualified Domain Name. Len http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com: ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5 & 8.2.3 T6B for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com: Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message