dangling CNAME pointer
Barry Margolin
barmar at bbnplanet.com
Wed Jul 7 23:21:12 UTC 1999
In article <37832D1C.93E5604A at dokumenta.net>,
Thomas Jessen <jessen at dokumenta.net> wrote:
>Hi,
>I get the following error message from a BIND4.9:
>
>dangling CNAME pointer (16.nasa.88.132.62.in-addr.arpa)
>
>but it doesn't make much sense to me. Any suggestions?
This is a site that has set up RFC 2317-style reverse DNS, but hasn't
filled in all the PTR records in the subdomain (they have entries for .1,
..4, .5, .6, and .11). 16.88.132.62.in-addr.arpa is a CNAME pointing to
16.nasa.88.132.62.in-addr.arpa, but the latter doesn't exist.
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