CNAMES and OTHER data

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 12:08:36AM +0200, Marc Storck wrote:
> 
> Hmmm..... sometime in the past I used granitecanyon.com as DNS provider and
> I used wonders.net as host...
> 
> while wonders.net was experimental and had a dynamic IP, we added the
> following to the Zone we had at GraniteCanyon:
> 
> $ORIGIN sample.domain
> 
> @    IN    A    wonders.dyn.ml.org
> (I forgot to mention Wonders.net used Monolith for Static Host to Dynamic
> IP)
> I didn't have any real experience with DNS so I wasn't aware it was
> "illegal/incorrect", but I worked during our 2-3 months of experimental
> service...
> 
> Now I'm stuck at the same point, I have/want to point a zone-apex to another
> hostname.....

You must use an IP address, it's the only legal RHS for an A record.

IF the above ever worked, it's because Granite did some pre-processing
on the file before it was used.

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