[17590] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Load balancing/Multiple CNAME's (Was: Re: Beyond DNS...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Shields)
Fri Jun 5 19:58:30 1998
From: shields@crosslink.net (Michael Shields)
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To: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: 05 Jun 1998 23:56:10 +0000
In-Reply-To: Studded's message of "Fri, 05 Jun 1998 16:41:56 -0700"
In article <35788244.55A2D71@san.rr.com>,
Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> 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.
> 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.
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Shields, CrossLink.
