Search Again: Re: Is CNAME legal for a Name Server? From: billc_lists@greenbuilder.com Date: Sunday, January 12, 2003 Time: 1:52:08 am >>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. Right. of course. I'd have figured that one out pretty quickly. > >>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 So the answer is "no, you can't do a CNAME?" but I *can* do an A record, NS3.greenbuilder.com A (his IP) right? -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable Building Calendar: http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/ Green Real Estate: http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/ Straw Bale Registry: http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com/ Books/videos/software: http://bookstore.greenbuilder.com/

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