CNAME and BIND

[Mark Andrews]

> 
> We had to take a nameserver out of operation, ns2.citytel.net. We host
> about a dozen domains and a bunch of them have ns2 as a secondary.
> 
> Ive been trying to contact the owners of those domains for about 2 months
> before the server went offline and Ive tried a few times since the
> server went offline to get them to change the records and now I give up.
> 
> The domains are still active on the primary so they do still have one auth
> server for them but I dont want to put ns2 back online as it was due to
> be phased out anyway cause it was *ancient*.
> 
> On the primary servers now we are getting NXDomain for ns2.citytel.net.
> Now I could either put a server on that, which I'd rather not have to do,
> or do something within the citytel.net zone to point to an existing
> server to act as ns2.citytel.net.
> 
> Can I just put in another A record to point to one of the other NS
> machines? Or, add a CNAME to another machine?
> 
> I seem to recall that having a CNAME for a nameserver is Not a Good Thing.
> But mostly I just want to get rid of all the NXDomain errors in the logs.

	CNAME's don't work at the protocol level.  Use address records.
 
> Thanks,
> Keith
> 
> 
> 
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Mark Andrews, ISC
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