RFC requirements for relative CNAME targets?

[John Miller]

My apologies--sent mid-message!

I know that for the following record in example.com's zone file:

host.example.com.  IN CNAME otherhost

BIND will return:

host.example.com. <TTL> IN CNAME otherhost.example.com.

Is this behavior required anywhere in the RFCs, or would

host.example.com. <TTL> IN CNAME otherhost.

be equally valid from an RFC perspective?  Obviously this would also
pertain to NS, MX, SRV, PTR, etc. records.

John


On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:12 PM, John Miller <johnmill at brandeis.edu> wrote:

> Hey there folks,
>
> I know that for the following record in a zone file:
>
> host.example.com.
>
> --
> John Miller
> Systems Engineer
> Brandeis University
> johnmill at brandeis.edu
> (781) 736-4619
>
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