[ILUG] Is it me or is it BIND?

[Daniel Shaw]

>
> lisa.com.     CNAME     www.webhost.com.
>
> I can't get BIND to load the zone file, and I have to change it to an A
> record
>
> lisa.com.     A     <ip address of www.webhost.com>
>
>
It's Bind. Or more accurately it's bind following the recommendations in RFC
1912, Section 2.4 and RFC 1034, Section 3.6.2.

In short, you can't have a CNAME coexisting with any other record type at a
give level. And as you already must have a SOA record and at least one NS
record for the top level of your domain, you therefore can't have a CNAME.

What I also learned while googleing to find the right RFC numbers is there's
a DNAME record which might work for you. Although it's more of a wild card
it seems. I am not familiar with DNAMES, so am unsure.

Cheers,
Daniel