Re-Post: CNAME Configuration Behaviour
Stephen Jacob
Stephen.Jacob at nominum.com
Mon Apr 16 21:39:50 UTC 2001
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 01:51:07PM -0700, Ravi Kondamuru wrote:
> I dont think I quite follow what you are saying. There is no breaking of
> heirarchy that has happened, as I see it.
> The name servers for cs.abc.com are defined in the abc.com name server,
> which is where they should be.
> The A record for www.cs.abc.com is with the name server of cs.abc.com, which
> is where it should be.
Excuse me. My mistake. I didn't read closely enough. You are indeed
correct. I see no problem with www.abc.com (defined on the abc.com
nameservers) being a CNAME for www.cs.abc.com (defined on the
cs.abc.com nameservers).
> its just that in the name server for domain abc.com, there is an entry
> www.abc.com 1D IN CNAME www.cs.abc.com
> Is this breaking any of the name server rules? saying the name is actually
> an alias of name in the sub-domain?
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There shouldn't be any problem with that.
Regards,
sj
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