Search Again: Re: Is CNAME legal for a Name Server? From: Len Conrad Date: Saturday, January 11, 2003 Time: 1:13:20 pm >I trade DNS backup services with another provider. Is it legal to put in a >CNAME at my end so that > >NS3.greenbuilder.com CNAME (his IP) illegal syntax. RDATA field for CNAME is a hostname, not an ip. >or >NS3.greenbuilder.com CNAME (ns2.hisdomain.com) legal syntax. RDATA field for CNAME is a canonical hostname. but hostnames used a NS hostnames must own only A records. ns.domain.com A ip.ad.re.ss Len

Messages In This Thread: Is CNAME legal for a Name Server? by billc_lists@greenbuilder.com on Jan 11, 2003 at 12:39:00 pm Re: Is CNAME legal for a Name Server? by Len Conrad on Jan 11, 2003 at 1:13:20 pm Re: Is CNAME legal for a Name Server? by billc_lists@greenbuilder.com on Jan 12, 2003 at 1:52:08 am Re: Is CNAME legal for a Name Server? by Len Conrad on Jan 12, 2003 at 2:04:22 am Re: Is CNAME legal for a Name Server? by Warren Michelsen on Jan 13, 2003 at 12:16:35 pm Re: Is CNAME legal for a Name Server? by Len Conrad on Jan 13, 2003 at 12:26:47 pm Re: Is CNAME legal for a Name Server? by Jona Tallieu on Jan 17, 2003 at 7:36:36 am Re: Is CNAME legal for a Name Server? by Len Conrad on Jan 17, 2003 at 7:40:53 am