Re: [tlug] BIND9 zone files

[Tod McQuillin <devin@example.com>]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Godwin Stewart wrote:

> bonivet.net.            IN   CNAME   spider.bonivet.net.

> ; ------------ Data ends here --------------
>
> named is doing *something* with this zone data file because when it starts
> up, this gets dumped into my log files:
>
> named[24611]: dns_master_load: db.bonivet.net:19: bonivet.net: CNAME and other data
> named[24611]: zone bonivet.net/IN: loading master file db.bonivet.net: CNAME and other data

named is complaining about the CNAME in combination with other data for
bonivet.net.  This is not valid according to the DNS RFCs.  A given domain
name may be a CNAME, or it may have one or more RRs of other types, but
not both.

CNAME says "This name is just an alias for something else, look there for
the real data".  It's like a symlink.

So you should remove the cname record for bonivet.net.
-- 
Tod Mcuillin