CNAME setup issue

[Tim Traver]

Thanks Chris for your response,

I have seen now in the logs that the zone doesn't even get loaded with a 
CNAME and other data error...

So, that's kind of confusing though...that basically means you can't 
have the primary domain location as a CNAME ?

If that is the desired effect, how would one go about it ???

Thanks,

Tim.


Chris Buxton wrote:
> You've made a classic mistake, violating the CNAME and other data rule.
>
> A CNAME record may not have the same name as any other record, 
> including another CNAME record. (If you're using DNSSEC, you should 
> already know enough to ignore the absolutism presented here.) 
> Therefore, the following is always an error that will cause your 
> entire zone to fail to load:
>
> @    SOA    [... fill in values here ...]
>     CNAME    anything.at.all.
>
> On the other hand, this will not generate an error:
>
> @    SOA    [... fill in values here ...]
> www    CNAME    anything.at.all.
>
> The upshot is, you need to delete that first CNAME record.
>
> Chris Buxton
> Men & Mice
>
> On Jun 25, 2007, at 2:54 PM, Tim Traver wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> ok, this may be a simple question, but I've racked my brain over it for
>> too long and can't figure it out...
>>
>> I have a DNS server set up to be an authoritative server only. It has
>> the following main configuration parameters :
>>
>> options {
>>         directory "/etc/namedb";
>>         recursion no;
>>         interface-interval 30;
>>         allow-transfer { any; };
>>         dump-file "/var/dump/named_dump.db";
>>         statistics-file "/var/log/named.stats";
>>         query-source address * port 33701;
>>         notify no;
>> };
>>
>> I have a zone file set up for a domain that looks like this (will use
>> the example of domain2.com):
>>
>> $TTL 4h
>> @               IN SOA ns3.domain1.com. postmaster.domain1.com. (
>>                 2007062508                      ; Serial
>>                 3600 3600 1209600 3600);       ;
>> Refresh,Retry,Expire,Min TTL
>>
>>                 IN NS   ns3.domain1.com.
>>                 IN NS   ns4.domain1.com.
>> ;- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>> domain2.com.  IN      CNAME   ghs.google.com.
>> www     IN      CNAME   ghs.google.com.
>>
>>
>> Problem is, that if I query the server directly, I get the following
>> answer :
>>
>> root at ns1# dig @ns3.simplenet.com mediabait.com
>>
>> ; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> @ns3.domain1.com domain2.com
>> ; (1 server found)
>> ;; global options:  printcmd
>> ;; Got answer:
>> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 55721
>> ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>>
>> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>> ;domain2.com.                 IN      A
>>
>> ;; Query time: 2 msec
>> ;; SERVER: 209.xxx.xx.x#53(209.xxx.xx.x)
>> ;; WHEN: Mon Jun 25 14:47:33 2007
>> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 31
>>
>> But, when I do a query on another domain that I know has a CNAME as
>> well, I get the following :
>>
>> ;store.domain3.com.      IN      A
>>
>> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>> store.domain3.com. 14400 IN      CNAME   www.empirevstore.com.
>>
>> Does anyone see a problem with this setup ???
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tim.
>>
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