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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Load balancing/Multiple CNAME's (Was: Re: Beyond DNS...)
Michael Shields wrote: > > In article <[email protected]>, > Studded <[email protected]> wrote: > > > For the same reason you can't CNAME a zone's root to something else > > > (meaning, if I am setting up the zone map for n.ml.org, I can CNAME > > > web.n.ml.org to narnia.n.ml.org, > > > > Right. > > > > > but I can't CNAME n.ml.org to > > > narnia.n.ml.org, nor can I CNAME n.ml.org to ftp.microsoft.com, or any > > > other host), > > > > Why not? > > Because you cannot have CNAME RRs along with any other RR, including > NS and SOA. DNSSEC RRs are excepted. True, the example was a little fuzzy. If n.ml.org is the origin of that zone then no, you can't add a CNAME for it. My point was that if it's valid to point a name at a CNAME there is nothing wrong with pointing it to one outside the zone, which is a common misconception. Sorry for the confusion. > > Finally, if you plan to disagree with anything in this post, please > > quote chapter and verse from the relevant RFC. I've spent a lot of time > > studying this topic and am quite sure of my facts. > > RFC 2181 section 10.1. Sorry I wasn't clear. I meant that you should actually quote the material you want to refer to. I can't find any RFC 2181 either at ftp://rs.internic.net/rfc/ or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/. If you would be so kind as to quote exactly what you are referring to and provide a URL so that I can check out the context I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of one of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat servers with 5,328 simultaneous connections *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD)
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