Bind 8.2.3 Compilation Problem

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Fri Apr 13 14:05:28 UTC 2001


> 
> Hi Guys,
> 
>                I have successfully compiled bind 8.2.3 on HP-UX 11.00 and
> got the named server stand up at last.
> It's resolving configured domains fine except that it's not taking more than
> ONE CNAME for a particular A record. The same is working fine with the older
> version 8.2.2. Can anyone comment on this?

	options { multiple-cnames yes; };

	You really should not have multiple cnames.  All BIND 8
	versions complain about them unless you have set "multiple-cnames
	yes;".  BIND 9 does not support them at all as they were
	the result of a BIND 4 bug and are technically illegal in the DNS.

	Mark

> 
> regards
> joydeep
> 
> 
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