Name Servers

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 07:24:42PM +0000, Manuel A. McLure wrote:
> (piggybacking)
> 
> Does the name you register have to be the CNAME, or can it be an alias? For 
> example, if I have a host with "leng.mclure.org" as it's CNAME, can I alias it 
> to "ns1.mclure.org" and register that? Or would I have to register 
> "leng.mclure.org" as my nameserver?

It "should not" be an alias, for some value of "should not".  See
yesterday's discussion of this point.  Well, maybe last week, I'm not
sure.  ;-)

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