Dynamic DNS and cnames

nickyboy nickyboy at 4ce.co.uk
Tue Aug 5 19:24:36 UTC 2003


"Christian Smith" <xmas at this.address.is.invalid> wrote in message
news:bgovjs$5g7$1 at sf1.isc.org...
> In article <bgop5i$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.
>

Doh...    you're right well spotted, I was just getting carried away! :-)

Thanks
Nick



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