If your domain is ourweddingaccount.com, and you're looking to have the apex record
ourweddingaccount.com. CNAME some.other.domain. but still host other records in the ourweddingaccount.com zone, you can't. That's not how CNAME records work. A CNAME record is an alias for a particular _label_ within a zone. It's meant to do things like myserver.ourweddingaccount.com. CNAME some.other.domain. What you're saying here is that the name "myserver" will always point to "some.other.domain" __regardless_of_record_type__. If you're trying to do this for the __apex_record__ of your zone (just your domain name, no hostname), you're saying that you don't need SOA or NS records for your zone--it's a contradiction in terms. You _must_ use an A or AAAA record. Period. If you're running a web site on a host whose IP address changes frequently, may I suggest that you let someone else manage your DNS for you? Plenty of DNS companies do this: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200169056-CNAME-Flattening-RFC-compliant-support-for-CNAME-at-the-root http://docs.aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/latest/UserGuide/setting-up-route53-zoneapex-elb.html https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/apex-domains https://blog.dnsimple.com/2014/01/why-alias-record/ Otherwise, I suggest that you read http://serverfault.com/questions/613829/why-cant-a-cname-record-be-used-at-the-apex-aka-root-of-a-domain If you want to manage your own DNS, you need to understand how DNS works and what its limitations are. John On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Daniel Dawalibi <daniel.dawal...@idm.net.lb> wrote: > Hello John > > The below is not working on our BIND version BIND 9.10.0-P2 unless it is > working on other version > > Domain.com. CNAME x.y.com. > www CNAME x.y.com. > > Errors returned when adding these records: > > general: dns_master_load: ourweddingaccount.com.db.inter:13: > ourweddingaccount.com: CNAME and other data > > > If we proceed with the below work around by replacing the CNAME with A > record, It will resolve but our setup requires a CNAME record. > > Domain.com. A IPaddress > www CNAME x.y.com. > _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
