dangling CNAME pointer
Thomas Jessen
jessen at dokumenta.net
Thu Jul 8 16:31:36 UTC 1999
Barry Margolin wrote:
>
> 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.
Thanks for your help
CU TJ
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