cname quick question

[Cricket Liu]

> 1 - I thought the SOA was a "special record" and should be exempt form
> CNAME chaining, etc.  Apparently, if you request the SOA record for an
> alias using 'nslookup', it returns the SOA of the canonical name instead.
This
> behavior seems unusual and results in incorrect data (obviously).  Is this
an
> oversight in RFC1034/3.6.2?  It seems to me that the SOA returned should
> be from the alias (left hand side), not the canonical name.
>
> 2 - Likewise for NS records, for the same reasons.

How can an alias own either an SOA or an NS record?  That violates the
"CNAME and other data" rule.

cricket