Nameserver question...

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Wed Aug 1 12:35:20 UTC 2001


> That set aside, I belive I read somewhere that NS records should not
> point to CNAMEs. Don't ask me for the technical discussion behind this

	Additional section processing, CNAMES aren't added hence you
	don't get the glue required to find the nameservers.

	Any RR which references another RR should be referencing the
	canonical name and not the alias.

	Mark
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