Going crazy! -- "Sending Notifies" not working on Redhat Enterprise v3??

[Mark Andrews]

> Hello,
> 
> I've been reading through documentation, and I still can't find a reason
> why notifies weren't sent out to ns2.myvemma.com when it was defined as a
> CNAME.  They were only sent out when it had an A record.  In both cases,
> it had a NS record.

	NS records are only supposed to point to addresses records (A/AAAA).
	Pointing to CNAMES is not supported by the DNS protocol.  Named
	knows this so it never follows a CNAME when looking up addresses
	of nameservers.  This causes broken configurations to be detected
	earlier and hopefully be fixed.
 
> Bind 8 seemed to have no problem sending notifies to a slave server that
> was defined by a CNAME record.  Does anyone know if this is an official
> change?

	You are confused.  BIND 8 and BIND 9 only look for A/AAAA and
	in some versions A6 records.
 
> Thank you,
> -Raiden Johnson
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