cname quick question

[Erik Aronesty]

Are you saying it won't work?  I have a zone loaded up, ready and working to
prove you wrong.

        - Erik


----- Original Message -----
From: <Mark.Andrews at nominum.com>
To: "Erik Aronesty" <erik at primedata.org>
Cc: "glen herrmannsfeldt" <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu>; <bind-users at isc.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 11:25 PM
Subject: Re: cname quick question


>
> Eric,
>       please cease and desist giving out this garbage "advice".
>
> Mark
> >
> > Dear Clueless,
> >
> > You don't need anyone's "permission" to put a "com" domain in your
> > authoritative-only named.conf and to put a CNAME in it.  It will work
just
> > fine as a CNAME on a "foo.com" domain name.
> >
> >         - Erik
> >
> > "glen herrmannsfeldt" <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote in message
> > news:983rd1$ped at gap.cco.caltech.edu...
> > > Jim Reid <jim at rfc1035.com> writes:
> > >
> > > (snip)
> > >
> > > >Like Tal Dayan, you are being obtuse or deliberately provocative.
> > > >Please *read* the extract from RFC1034 above. Now *think* about what
> > > >it says and what that means. Pay particular attention to the last
> > > >sentence. Hint: suppose clueless.example.com was a CNAME pointing at
> > > >moron.example.net. That CNAME is cached by some name server. It can
> > > >safely use that cached CNAME without having to query the example.com
> > > >name servers to check that no other record types exist for
> > > >clueless.example.com.
> > >
> > > It would seem that the problem is political and not technical.
> > >
> > > As far as I know, NSI won't put a CNAME in the root servers, thus
> > > one can't have a second level CNAME.  If one wanted example.com to
> > > be a CNAME for moron.com, it is technically possible (put the CNAME
> > > in the .com domain).   In the pre-NSI days, this might have made
> > > sense.
> > >
> > > -- glen
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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