From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 1: 4:13 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 526DF37B4C5 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 01:04:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id B5CA16A904 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:04:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from sv.Go2France.com [212.73.210.79] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.04) id AC85C0060146; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:10:29 +0100 Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20001031100302.027dc9f0@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: lconrad%Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:04:02 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: DNS related question In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20001031093845.0656b760@mail.Go2France.com> References: <39FE813B.99A16D4A@gorean.org> <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 At 09:45 31/10/00 +0100, you wrote: >> > 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. oops, how sloppy of me, :))), better to be: FQHN, Host 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