Can I use the zone name as CNAME ?

[Derek J. Balling]

This has been covered a couple times already.

A CNAME cannot co-exist with most other RR types, including NS, SOA, and MX
records.

So the answer is: No.

D


At 9:52 AM -0800 2/13/01, Trinh wrote:
>Hello
>I would like use one of my zone name as a CNAME to the
>other name.  Is it possible?  I kept getting an error
>message as the following:
>
>CNAME and OTHER DATA error
>
>Please advice :)
>
>Trinh
>
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