Can NS record point to CNAME record ?

[Peter Dambier]

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Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
| On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:13:55PM -0400,
|  Slawomir Orlowski (CYMPAK) <sorlowski at cympak.com> wrote
|  a message of 18 lines which said:
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|>So can I do that:
|>
|>@           IN    NS         ns1.mydomain.com.
|
|
| No, the right hand side of a NS (or a MX) cannot be an alias. It has
| to be the canonical name. Your setup may work but break in mysterious
| ways with some resolvers.
|
| Why not:
|
| @           IN    NS         ns1.mydomain.com.
| diamond  IN    A           198.138.227.66
| ns1         IN    A           198.138.227.66
| www       IN    CNAME  diamond
|
| (or "diamond IN CNAME ns1")
|
|

I have seen:

ns1.mydom.	CNAME	eugen.no-ip.com.

dig eugen.no-ip.com

eugen.no-ip.com	A	10.10.10.10

Even when eugen had a "real" ip it used to break.

Regards,
Peter and Karin Dambier

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