The RFC or the reason why you can not create CNAME record for the "root record"

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On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 05:12:06 -0500 Barry Margolin <barmar at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

| RFC 1034 says: "The domain system provides such a feature [aliases] 
| using the canonical name (CNAME) RR.  A CNAME RR identifies its owner 
| name as an alias, and specifies the corresponding canonical name in the 
| RDATA section of the RR.  If a CNAME RR is present at a node, no other 
| data should be present; this ensures that the data for a canonical name 
| and its aliases cannot be different."
| 
| Since a delegated zone name is required to have SOA and NS records, if 
| it also had a CNAME record it would violate the restriction in the last 
| sentence.

So how do we fix this?  I think a hack/patch is the only way.  But I see
two different ways to approach that.  Which one is likely to work in most
cases?

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