NS record points to CNAME record
Robert Messinger
lists at mail.tiggee.com
Sun Apr 7 18:36:24 UTC 2002
Nope,
All NS records must either be an IP or an A record.
CNAME records can only be pointed to A records. (You can not have
an alias to an alias.)
MX work the same way as NS records.
A records can only be IPs.
On 6 Apr 2002, Todd wrote:
>
> If the subject comfused anyone, sorry. Don't know exactly how to
> phrase the question. But basically here is the issue i have going on
> in my DNS. I just want to clarify if this can be done:
>
> ;-------------------------------------------------------------------
> ;
> ; Nameservers
>
> IN NS ns1.traumatized.net.
>
> ;-------------------------------------------------------------------
> ;
> ; Mail Exchanger
> IN MX 10 mail.traumatized.net.
> ;
> traumatized.net IN A 24.207.128.80
> ;
> ;
> ;-------------------------------------------------------------------
> ; Canonicals
> ;
> ns1 IN CNAME mail.traumatized.net.
> ;
> ;-------------------------------------------------------------------
> ;
> localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
> ;
>
> OK, now the actual machine name this resides on is
> mail.traumatized.net. But the NS record points to ns1.traumatized.net.
> So, in order for this to work, I put in the line "ns1 IN CNAME
> mail.traumatized.net". Can I do this? I think i can but i just want
> clarification. thanks
>
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