CNAME and other data -vs- could not find NS and/or SOA records

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c9len1$84a$1 at sf1.isc.org>, phil-news-nospam at ipal.net wrote:

> On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 19:10:43 +0100 Jim Reid <jim at rfc1035.com> wrote:
> |>>>>> "Phil" == phil-news-nospam  <phil-news-nospam at ipal.net> writes:
> | 
> |    Phil> I have a domain (several of them, actually) in which I need
> |    Phil> to CNAME them to another domain (which is under someone
> |    Phil> else's authority).
> | 
> | The DNS does not allow domains to be CNAMEd, to use your terminology.
> | I believe you've been told this already.
> 
> But it has been done before.  Obviously it was in violation of the RFC,
> but when it was done, it had the desired (and I think quite obvious)
> effect.

Are you sure it actually worked?  As the administrator of a slave 
server, I've run into many occasions where zone transfers were failing 
because the master server had a CNAME record for the zone name.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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