BIND Bug Summary

[Kevin Darcy]

I fail to see why your "fail over clusters" *need* multiple CNAMEs. Why can't
you just use multiple A records like everyone else?


- Kevin

Loucks, Guy wrote:

> My many thanks to the prompt responses from:
>         Mark Andrews
>         Peter
>
> This turned out to be a config file mistake, missed the multiple-cnames yes,
> option.
>
> A few gracious souls tried to run DIG against our external DNS, thus
> locating our global MX wildcards, and started indicating that we had
> multiple entries in the zone file, which is not allowed for the CNAME entry.
> Not quite the problem.
>
> A few people suggested to not use this, as it is not in BIND 9, but as we
> have fail over clusters, that is not an option for us right now.
>
> Likewise for the BIND upgrade, we are running an 8.1.2 derivative, but it is
> Compaq's (DEC), and we do not want to break our clusters or their support
> from Compaq on core servers, the security issues are quarantined.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Guy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Loucks, Guy [mailto:Guy.Loucks at det.nsw.edu.au]
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 5:29 PM
> To: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: BIND Bug
>
> People,
>
> We are running:
>
> named 8.1.2-REL
>
> On Compaq T64 v5.0A.
>
> There appears to be a problem with RR CNAME / MX's
>
> See below:
>
> # cat ns.sh
> nslookup <<HERE
> ls tafensw.edu.au.
> HERE
>
> # sh ns.sh | grep -i sci
> sci                     30M IN CNAME    hadsy8.isd
>
> tafensw.edu.au.db:sci                   IN      CNAME
> hadsy7.isd.tafensw.edu.au.
> tafensw.edu.au.db:sci                   IN      CNAME
> hadsy8.isd.tafensw.edu.au.
>
> Before we scream down an upgrade to 8.2.2PL5, does anyone know if this is a
> known defect in 8.1.2?
>
> Kindest Regards,
>
> Guy
>
> Guy R. Loucks
> Senior Unix Systems Administrator
> Networks Branch
> NSW Department of Education & Training
> Information Technology Bureau
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> Email guy.loucks at det.nsw.edu.au