root(@) record help

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9o7ui6$s21 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Escario Julien <contact at asylog.net> wrote:
>I'm running BIND 8.2.2 for a few month and just want to have my adress 
>asylog.net directed to ip 193.246.250.178
>
>Here's the complete db file (just if someone can say me why $ttl line is 
>needed ..)
>What's wrong ? because when I restart bind I get the famous error : CNAME 
>and other data. (but there's only a SOA and a CNAME records for @);

There's also NS and A records for @ in your db file below.

SOA is other data.  The same name can't have both a CNAME record and other
types of records.  Since the zone name *has* to have SOA and NS records,
logic dictates that you can't have the CNAME record as well.  Get rid of
it.

BTW, @ is not "root".  The root domain is ".".  @ is just a shorthand for
the current origin, which defaults to the zone name.

>$ttl 86400
>@	IN	SOA	primary.asylog.net. admin.asylog.net. (
>			2001090404
>			10800
>			3600
>			604800
>			86400 )
>
>          IN	  NS	  primary.asylog.net.
>          IN	  NS	  secondary.asylog.net.
>          IN      MX  10  secondary.asylog.net.
>
>primary	  IN	  A	  193.246.250.178
>secondary IN      A       193.246.250.179
>
>@         IN      A       193.246.250.178
>mail      IN      CNAME   secondary.asylog.net.
>webmail   IN      CNAME   secondary.asylog.net.
>pop       IN      CNAME   secondary.asylog.net.
>imap      IN      CNAME   secondary.asylog.net.
>smtp      IN      CNAME   secondary.asylog.net.
>*         IN      CNAME   primary.asylog.net.
>@         IN      CNAME   primary.asylog.net.
>
>When I comment the last line and reload bind is happy.
>Thanks
>
>
>


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