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

[David Botham]

bind-users-bounce at isc.org wrote on 06/01/2004 10:09:22 AM:
> 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?

"This" is not broken and therefore cannot be fixed.  Change your mind 
instead.

Thanks,


Dave...

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