CNAME and OTHER data error

[peter at icke-reklam.ipsec.dot..nu]

jasondinsdale at my-deja.com wrote:
> People,

> Can you please confirm something for me?   I have the following records
> in a zone file (which I inherited), which our new 8.2.2 (P5) name
> server is complaining about.

looks to me as a description of netbui names. We did this 
at volvo during the time we used LanServer(OS/2) as pc-servers. They
needed simular long "hexcode" names in order to find each other.
(i really forgot what is really wasm but i remember it was
described in some rfc (1101 ?)

The HINFO > CNAME looks illegal however ..


> sldakz03		           IN A	9.184.224.241
> FDEMEEEBELFKDADDCACACACACACACACA   IN CNAME sldakz03
> 				   IN HINFO sldakz03 (0x20 in byte 16)
> FDEMEEEBELFKDADDCACACACACACACAAA   IN CNAME sldakz03
> 				   IN HINFO sldakz03 (0x00 in byte 16)
> FDEMEEEBELFKDADDCACACACACACACAAD   IN CNAME sldakz03
> 				   IN HINFO sldakz03 (0x03 in byte 16)

> It seems to me that the intention of the original author is to define
> an HINFO record for each of the CNAMEs, but due to the new zone
> checking routines in 8.2.2, this is now illegal?

> If so then is there an alternative to using HINFO records?

> Many thanks,

> Jason


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