[Pdns-users] Re: Problem with powerdns(master) -> bind(slave)

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Tue Jan 22 08:26:53 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 11:38:30AM -0500,
 Matt Pounsett <matt at conundrum.com> wrote 
 a message of 43 lines which said:

> You can't mix a CNAME with other data.  

Other persons said so but it should be noted that it is no longer
completely true. RFC 4034 (published in march 2005) says:

   Because every authoritative RRset in a zone must be protected by a
   digital signature, RRSIG RRs must be present for names containing a
   CNAME RR.  This is a change to the traditional DNS specification
   [RFC1034], which stated that if a CNAME is present for a name, it is
   the only type allowed at that name. 

Mixing CNAME and A is still forbidden but you cannot say "Never use
CNAME with other types" any more.


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