On Oct 23, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
You aren't supposed to use CNAMES for anything found in other RR's;
in particular, you should always use an A record with the hostnames
used for nameservers (ie, have an NS record), because you are
supposed to be using the canonical name rather than an alias.
Errr? You mean the rule that NS and MX and SRV rdata must include
an A record
rather than a CNAME? That's true, but what does that have to do
with web
serving?
Consider the case of redirects involving cnames; you end up with a lot
of extra DNS traffic.
The illegality mentioned further upthread is that you can't use a
CNAME at a zone apex because of the 'CNAME and other data rule'[*]
-- as there's always got to be SOA and NS records at the zone apex,
if you want a web page at 'example.com' you'ld have to provide an A
or AAAA record for it. Unless you're Verisign and have control over
the nameservers for .com, this is almost certainly illegal:
example.com. IN CNAME www.example.com
On the other hand:
www.example.com. IN CNAME example.com.
is generally fine.
It's generally fine, sure, but almost never ideal. You don't save
traffic by using CNAMEs instead of A records....
PS: It's odd where google pulls up references to fairly canonical
docs, sometimes. I'm not sure I even recognize "ua", and I suspect I
deal with two-letter ISO 3166 country names more than most folks do.
Maybe Ukraine? :-)
Of course it's Ukraine. .uk was already taken, even though the two
letter
iso-code for this country is officially .gb. We're in an exclusive
club of
two nations that generally don't use their official iso-code in the
DNS. No
prizes for guessing which the other one is.
Shucks, how can you pull in Jeopardy references and then deny giving
out prizes? Well, my guess would be ie, although people who speak
Finnish and call their home "Suomi" might find "fi" odd, also....
Cheers,
Matthew
[*] Little known factoid, but there are two legal exceptions to the
'CNAME
and other data' rule. You can have RRSIG or NSEC records at the
same label
as CNAME -- see RFC 4035. Obscure DNS trivia for 100, Alex...
Regards,
--
-Chuck
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