On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 02:04:57PM -0500, Victor Duchovni wrote: > 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. > Yes, of course, OK. But I have a virtually default dnsmasq installation so I can't glean much from the documentation as I haven't really configured anything away from default. It's a quiet list! :-)
-- Chris Green
