possible noob question - @ CNAME?
Mark Andrews
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Sun Feb 8 22:44:49 UTC 2009
In message <e4b42c39-914d-42be-9488-7ae0eba34aa7 at r41g2000prr.googlegroups.com>, RJValenta writes:
> forever ago, i set myself up with a solid bandwidth and static IPs and
> started to host websites for my friends & their small businesses.
> basically, they covered the cost of my internet access.
>
> so for 10 years i've been hosting my own name, mail, and web servers
> allowing me to '@ A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' and then to make life easy i
> would 'www IN CNAME mywebserver.mydomain.com.' i say easy, because
> that way in the event that i changed ISPs and got new IP addresses,
> there was less chance of my screwing up a www and MX record if i made
> sure to change the two primary machines' A records properly.
>
> however, the '@ IN xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' would always need to be changed
> manually.
>
> Is there a way around this? is it possible in some fashion to '@ IN
> CNAME my.server.com' ?
>
> I ask because I'm trying to trim back here, and move my NS hosting to
> NetSol and subsequently trim back on what i have to manage. at this
> stage in the game i'd rather have more time to not worry about my
> friend's personal website about their kids, and still be confident
> that their wife's home business website will still stay up.
>
> any ideas on how i can CNAME their @ record so their http://whatever.com
> will still work, but in the end, i'm only managing one domain's IP
> records?
>
> thanks,
>
> richard
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No you can't. 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 existence (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."
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