Dynamic DNS and cnames

Christian Smith xmas at this.address.is.invalid
Tue Aug 5 18:37:23 UTC 2003


In article <bgop5i$t88$1 at sf1.isc.org>, "nickyboy" <nickyboy at 4ce.co.uk> 
wrote:

> I don't quite see the problem, you've allready come up with the solution...
> I have a simular system for some of my clients....
> They have client.dyn-dns.org and I simply have a CNAME record like so:
> 
> www.client.com CNAME client.dyn-dns.org
> client.com            MX        client.dyn-dns.org

These are fine and good.

> client.com           CNAME client.dyn-dns.org

This is not legal since client.com is the label for the  SOA and can't 
also be the label for a CNAME.

-- 
Christian Smith


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