What is wrong with this?

[Chris Buxton]

>  > Well let's say it is bob.net and I want it to go to bob.com and I do not
>  > care about other services since a record like
>  > bob.net. IN MX 10 mail.bob.com. takes care of this need for an MX
>record.  I
>  > am confused because before BIND I was using QuickDNS Pro and the approach
>  > that I had taken before worked well but it brakes in BIND
>
>	You just think it worked well.  CNAME at top of zone cause
>	all sorts of breakages.

That is correct. Our non-Bind DNS server, QuickDNS Server for Mac OS, 
discards the illegal CNAME record (with an error message in the log), 
but continues to serve the rest of the zone.

Bind, on the other hand, marks the rest of the zone as 
non-authoritative, which makes the fact that there's a problem more 
obvious, but is otherwise not as friendly.
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