BIND question
Matus UHLAR - fantomas
uhlar at fantomas.sk
Thu Apr 12 16:11:06 UTC 2018
On 12.04.18 08:29, Mark Andrews wrote:
>The domain system provides such a feature using the canonical name
>(CNAME) RR. A CNAME RR identifies its owner name as an alias, and
>specifies the corresponding canonical name in the RDATA section of the
>RR. If a CNAME RR is present at a node, no other data should be
>present; this ensures that the data for a canonical name and its aliases
>cannot be different. This rule also insures that a cached CNAME can be
>used without checking with an authoritative server for other RR types.
>
>Now go complain to the WC3 for not adding support for SRV to the protocol
you apparently mean W3C :-)
>or for defining a RR which points to a HTTP(S) server like MX points to
>a server for SMTP.
it was not apparently needed.
but maybe we would need defining RNAME that could recitect only one
given type of record, e.g.
@ IN RNAME A webhosting.example
IN RNAME MX mailhosting.example
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