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

[phil-news-nospam at ipal.net]

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 19:37:13 +0000 (UTC) phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu wrote:
| phil-news-nospam at ipal.net wrote:
|> 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?
| 
| Can't you rewrite the contents of the zonefiles to refer to the 
| new machines ? Present your zonefile and the functional changes
| you need.

It needs to refer to another domain under another administrative control.

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