Hello, I would like to know if there is a workaround for this illegal case: $ORIGIN foo.com @ IN SOA ........ @ IN NS ns1.foo.com. @ IN CNAME foo.net. This gives a "CNAMES and OTHER data" error but is there a workaround. Some BIND versions did allow: $ORIGIN foo.com @ IN SOA ........ @ IN NS ns1.foo.com. @ IN A foo.net. ;very strange but it worked!!!! Thanks, Marc