Search Again: Re: name server aliases From: Men & Mice Support Date: Wednesday, September 6, 2000 Time: 5:39:17 pm At 7:17 PM -0500 9/6/00, Mia's Virtual Post Office wrote: >Global Homes Webmaster said: > >>On 09/06/00 at 18:48, Mia's Virtual Post Office wrote: >> >>> Is it possible to alias or us a cname for a ns record? I have a customer >>> that would like to create the following: >>> >>> ns.theirserver.com CNAME jer.mia.net >>> ns2.theirserver.com CNAME ns2.mia.net >>> >>> Is this possible? >> >>According to DNS & BIND, CNAMEs should not be used in the data portion of a >>record, so using the above CNAMEs along with >> >> theirserver.com NS ns.theirserver.com >> theirserver.com NS ns2.theirserver.com >> >>would be a Bad Thing. In fact DNS&B uses an NS record example just like this >>to illustrate the point. Any reason you wouldn't want to use A records >>instead? >> >> >I know that it is not proper in DNS and BIND, however, there are about a >gazillion things that should not be done, like CNAME chaining, etc.. but >hell if it works! Actually, there's an important difference. CNAME chaining is recommended against, but it is permitted. Using an alias in an NS record simply will not work reliably. >So I guess what I am trying to do is appease a >customer that wants to have it look like he has some autonomy here so >that when someone does a "whois" they see his NameServer, which are >really ours. So I suppose I could create A records for his name servers, >but the inverse is not going to be their since these IP's already have >PTR records for our respective IPs. But I cannot see where a PTR record >is important where it concerns a DNS server. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy!

Messages In This Thread: name server aliases by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Sep 6, 2000 at 4:49:07 pm Re: name server aliases by Aaron Lynch on Sep 6, 2000 at 5:04:46 pm Re: name server aliases by Global Homes Webmaster on Sep 6, 2000 at 5:09:38 pm Re: name server aliases by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Sep 6, 2000 at 5:18:30 pm Re: name server aliases by Men & Mice Support on Sep 6, 2000 at 5:22:30 pm Re: name server aliases by Global Homes Webmaster on Sep 6, 2000 at 5:29:25 pm Re: name server aliases by Men & Mice Support on Sep 6, 2000 at 5:39:17 pm Re: name server aliases by Global Homes Webmaster on Sep 6, 2000 at 5:46:28 pm Re: name server aliases by Aaron Lynch on Sep 6, 2000 at 5:57:26 pm Re: name server aliases by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Sep 6, 2000 at 6:03:30 pm Re: name server aliases by Aaron Lynch on Sep 6, 2000 at 6:31:50 pm