On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 16:39 +0530, Yogesh wrote: > Good Day, > > I'm setting up a DNS server using BIND. I have a small clarification to > make. > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIND9ServerHowto#Alias%20Records > > The above link says that you cannot point one CNAME record to another. Which > means: > > ns A 10.10.5.5 > www CNAME ns > test CNAME www > > is illegal, right? The wikipedia article has an example for the contents of > the zone file, which has a CNAME pointing to another CNAME. I'm a bit > confused.. Please help. Can you also point me to the right RFC to look into > ?? I'm looking at RFC 1035 but can't find any reference to this. Or may be I > simply fail to see where it's mentioned.
It's in RFC 1034 at the end of Section 3.6.2. It is legal and BIND will support it. Why would you do that, though? It doubles the number of requests on the nameserver. -- Roshan George <ros...@arjie.com> _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
