Help: setting a CNAME record for the domain

[Erik Aronesty]

Dear Tal,

Dues to ISC's interpretation of the DNS specification, the fact that this zone happens to be at the "root" of a particular "text file" means it *can not have a CNAME* in 8.2.3.  

You can get around this in 3 ways:

1 - Copy all of the resource records from teiko.ontero.net. to your server on a regular basis (IE: don't use cnames).
2 - Make an entry in the ".com" zone for "teiko". 
3 - Patch BIND to allow cnames - no matter where they occur in the tree of zone info (I have the source for load_db.c if you need it)

			- Erik


-----Original Message-----
From:	Tal Dayan [SMTP:tal at zapta.com]
Sent:	Sunday, February 25, 2001 12:48 AM
Cc:	bind-users at isc.org
Subject:	Help: setting a CNAME record for the domain


Hello,

We are suing named 8.1.1 on Redhat 6.2

We try to set in the zone file of the domain 'teiko.com' the following CNAME
record:

teiko.com.     CNAME   teiko.ontero.net.

but get the error:

teiko.com has CNAME and other data (invalid)
Feb 24 21:32:51 dns1 named[2967]: zones/friends/teiko.com:47:teiko.com:
CNAME and OTHER da
ta error

When we change the CNAME record to an A record:

teiko.com.      A       205.162.50.66

It works just fine. Are we doing anything wrong ?

Since logically the record as an alias, we prefer to have a CNAME rather
than
A record.

Thanks,

Tal