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[Mark Andrews]

> On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 14:55 -0800, Bryan Irvine wrote: 
> > I'm trying to point kingcountyjournal.com to our hosting companies
> > server at usnlbc.us.publicus.com.
> 
> You mean that you want the name "kingcountyjournal.com" to resolve to
> the address of "usnlbc.us.publicus.com", namely 209.225.11.186?
> 
> Because "kingcountyjournal.com" is the name of a domain, you can't use
> it as the name of an alias (CNAME).

	I do wish people would get terminology right.  DNS is hard enough
	for the novice without using terms incorrectly.

	It's the name of a "zone".  It also happens to be a domain
	name but in this case the constraint is because it the name
	of the zone, i.e. it has SOA and NS RRsets (resource record
	sets).

	From the FAQ.

Q: I get error messages like "multiple RRs of singleton type" and
   "CNAME and other data" when transferring a zone. What does this
   mean?

A: These indicate a malformed master zone. You can identify the
   exact records involved by transferring the zone using dig then
   running named-checkzone on it.
   
   dig axfr example.com @master-server > tmp
   named-checkzone example.com tmp

   A CNAME record cannot exist with the same name as another record except
   for the DNSSEC records which prove its existance (NSEC).

   RFC 1034, Section 3.6.2: "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. This rule
   also insures that a cached CNAME can be used without checking
   with an authoritative server for other RR types."


 
> That means you need to create an A record with that actual address:
> 
>    kingcountyjournal.com  IN A 209.225.11.186
> 
> Though if the line goes exactly where your faulty line was, you can and
> should abbreviate that to:
> 
>    IN A 209.225.11.186
> 
> If the address of "usnlbc.us.publicus.com" ever changes, you will need
> to update the kingcountyjournal.com zone.
> 
> Regards, K.
> 
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