Allow Multiple-Cnames in BIND 9

Jim Reid jim at rfc1035.com
Thu Nov 29 17:28:58 UTC 2001


>>>>> "Justin" == Justin M Wilson <justin at justin.net> writes:

    Justin> One of the "features" of Bind 9 was that RFC compliance
    Justin> was enforced with greater gusto. We had a setup that
    Justin> involved violating the RFC's to do Multiple Cnames. We
    Justin> just had to put a config entry in named.conf to make it
    Justin> work. In Bind 9, there doesn't seem to be away. Does
    Justin> anyone know of a workaround for Bind 9?

There is no workaround. You have to fix your zone files so that they
are legal. As they should have been set up. You might find that
replacing the CNAMEs with A records will be a workable kludge.


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