[CentOS] DNS CNAME question
Ross S. W. Walker
rwalker at medallion.com
Thu Oct 25 14:12:16 UTC 2007
Rogelio wrote:
>
> Not sure if this is the best place to ask this question (and
> if so, please point me to a better listserv), but is there
> anything "wrong" RFC or best practice wise with pointing a
> CNAME record to a DNS server?
>
> (I'm using EveryDNS.net, and I'd like to make my CNAME
> records ns1->4.myDomain.com correspond to ns1->ns4.EveryDNS.net.)
RFC doesn't permit the use of aliases to define zone servers.
There is no shame though in listing the everydns name servers
directly in your zone. I have done that in the past when I setup
zones that had external name servers that were secondary, but
authoritative.
-Ross
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