On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 12:52:01PM -0500, Barry Margolin wrote: ... > I think he misunderstood you to be saying that the name that has a CNAME > can never appear on the *righthand* side of a RR. This is true for > records like MX and NS -- they mustn't point to aliases. CNAME chains > are the exception to this rule. ...
And actually, names that are on the left-hand side of a CNAME record can also appear on the left-hand side of certain DNSSEC records. I don't think there's a similar general rule about right-hand sides, just - as you say - the specific rules against use in RHS of MX and NS. Which, unfortunately, does not prevent their use in many cases ... -- /*********************************************************************\ ** ** Joe Yao j...@tux.org - Joseph S. D. Yao ** \*********************************************************************/ _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
