[Gllug] DNS CNAME usage.

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Mon Mar 20 13:21:27 UTC 2006


On Monday, 20 Mar 2006, Steve Nelson wrote:
>Your OP asked whether there would be a problem.

The OP did _not_ ask if there would be a problem with a CNAME chain.
The OP does not propose to use a CNAME chain at all. The OP proposes
"foo.example.com IN CNAME foo.bar.com" and "foo.bar.com IN A x.x.x.x".

>limitation.  If it is expressly forbidden I'll gladly stand corrected,
>but I'd be interested to see where in the  RFCs.

RFC 1034 section 3.6.2.

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