CNAME question

[Barry Margolin]

In article <389abfb7 at news.olivant.fo>,
Rani Hansen <rani_list at post.olivant.fo> wrote:
>
>I have this peculiar question/(lack of understanding)
>
>
>mycompany.com has various  IN A, MX & CNAME records.
>mycompany is also known as myothercompany.com.
>
>if i put this:
>myothercompany.com. IN CNAME mycompany.com.
>it then zonefile for myothercompany.com then it will resolv ok,
>but it is not possible to do a named-xfer on a secondary
>nameserver. 
>this is the response:
>-------------
>named-xfer[26824]: wrong answer in resp from
>[5.6.7.8], zone myothercompany.com: [mycompany.com IN SOA]

A name can't have a CNAME record and other records.  A zone name has to
have its own SOA and NS records, so it can't also have a CNAME record.

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