ip aliasing and dns

[Barry Margolin]

In article <37F10372.F1752C4D at anarchyink.com>,
JT Smith  <jt at anarchyink.com> wrote:
>does anybody know if you have to use the primary ip address/hostname of
>a machine as the name server's ip and name?

It's a good idea to use the primary hostname in NS records.  Named will
recognize when an NS record refers to itself and do appropriate checking
and error reporting to avoid looping a query back to itself.

Recent versions also check the IP address that the name in an NS record
points to, but this requires additional lookups.

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