[17554] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Beyond DNS...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Anderson)
Thu Jun 4 17:54:33 1998
In-Reply-To: <199806042137.RAA00024@Iodine.Mlink.NET>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 17:46:36 -0400
To: Phillip Vandry <vandry@Mlink.NET>
From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
>> I think you have something else messed up. That message should only come
>> out when you have a CNAME record that points to another CNAME. Check that
>> you put the trailing dot in.
>
>There are a few different messages:
>
>"%s has CNAME and other data (invalid)" (bind-8.1.2/src/bin/named/db_update.c)
>"dangling CNAME pointer" (bind-8.1.2/src/bin/named/ns_resp.c)
>
>-Phil
Ahh. I see. According to Chris Cappuccio this has been turned off in bind
8, and is apparently non-standard behavior. We are in fact running bind
4.9.3. Sorry for the confusion.
But you can still have multiple A records, which does the failover part
that the original poster wanted.
--Dean
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