On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 06:32:24PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
> > It is not legal for a DNS CNAME RRset to coexist with other data for
> > the same domain name. Nor should you have multiple CNAME records for
> > the same domain.
> >
> > If "mdw.zmbc.edu" is a host with "A" records, it must not be a CNAME.
> > If it is an alias to another domain, it is must not be a host with
> > "A" records. You need to fix your DNS data.
>
> There isn't a zone file as such for mws, DNS is provided by a minimal
> DNS server called dnsmasq running on 192.168.1.2 - I guess I need to
> address you points to the dnsmasq gurus/maintainers and see what they
> say.
I would expect that dnsmasq is documented, and the documentation should
cover sufficient detail to help you avoid this illegal RRset combination.
You should only bother the "gurus/maintainers" if the documentation
is incomplete or observed behaviour deviates from the documentation.
--
Viktor.
