On Tue, 27 May 1997 03:30:24 -0700 (PDT) , Douglas L Stewart wrote: > I'm seeing a lot of warnings in /var/adm/debug because NS and MX records > are pointing to CNAME's. Is this not allowed? If it's not, could someone > point me to a reference that says that it's not, so I can point it out to > the ISP that's got things set up this way.
I have installed the Debian 'bind' package, so I'll refer to this. In /usr/doc/bind are at least three documents that say this is not allowed: manual.txt.gz Name Server Operations Guide for BIND rfc1033.txt.gz RFC1033 rfc1034.txt.gz RFC1034 Do a text search on 'CNAME' and you'll find it. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .