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  From: Trevor Nichols <trevor@ocdi.org>
  To  : Corey Gilmore <cfg@dln.uvm.edu>
  Date: 27 Jul 2001 04:19:06 +0930

Re: BIND question

> The questions i have:
> is it incredibly wrong to have ns.domain1.com as a cname to my main host,
> domain1.com?

I believe it is "naughty"/wrong to have the ns entry as a CNAME.

> thing seem to work fine setup that way.  if it IS wrong, this should work
> fine for aliasing domain1.com to ns.domain1.com
> domain1.com.	IN CNAME ns.domain1.com

Personally I'd just have the ns and the domain entries assigned to the
IP addresses (even if they are the same).

> Also, do I need to have separate zone files (and entries in named.conf)
> for CNAME's of external domains?  that is,

Yes that's correct.  You can't combine them in the one zone file, it
doesn't work that way (as you already discovered).

Hope that helps.

-Trev.

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