Cnames and "virtual name based hosting"

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 09:09:57AM +0000,
 fih <frhak at hotmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 20 lines which said:

> I have heard rumors that it would be illegeal and bad to use Cnames
> to point out websites at webhotels using "virtual name based
> hosting".

B...s
 
> Like this:

It is perfectly OK.
 
May be you were thinking of something else:

unixbox.domain.com. IN A 1.1.1.1
www-hosting.domain.com. IN CNAME unixbox.domain.com.
www.customer1.com. IN CNAME www-hosting.domain.com.
www.customer2.com. IN CNAME www-hosting.domain.com.
www.customer3.com. IN VNAME www-hosting.domain.com.

This would be very convenient but probably illegal (RFC 1034 "Domain
names in RRs which point at another name should always point at the
primary name and not the alias. ")