CNAME Configuration Behaviour

[Brad Knowles]

At 4:20 PM -0400 4/18/01, Kevin Darcy wrote:

>  Does the abc.com nameserver have recursion turned on? If you want 
>it to resolve
>  names outside of its authoritative zones (e.g. the www.cs.abc.com A record),
>  then you need to turn on recursion.

	Make sure that you keep distinct in your mind the difference 
between the private caching nameserver that this machine may use for 
it's own local resolution purposes (e.g., listed in /etc/resolv.conf) 
which may or may not even be on the same machine, and the public 
authoritative nameserver function that this machine performs for the 
entire abc.com domain.

	These are two totally separate and distinct roles, and it is my 
personal opinion that they should ideally be done on totally separate 
machines, with totally separate instances of BIND (or other 
nameserver software), etc....

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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