cname quick question

[Erik Aronesty]

Can we please keep this in the newsgroup?

Sure, sorry.

> So why is nslookup returning an SOA record?  Shouldn't it say something
> else?

What you showed was nslookup returning the SOA
record for the target of the alias, which is exactly what
it should do.  It can't return the SOA record for the
alias because there isn't one.

So, if CNAME records have no SOA - then how often will they "refresh/retry/live in the cache", etc?

-erik