which is the vaild a format?

[Roy Arends]

On Dec 10, 2006, at 10:38 PM, Farkas Levente wrote:

> hi,
> after i test nsd i find the following. if i use this in a zone file:
> $ORIGIN example.com.
>                CNAME           www
> www            CNAME           x
> x              A               1.2.3.4
> then it's excepted by nsd what's more give the proper result. if the
> slave is nsd than there is no problem, while if the slave is bind i've
> got the following error:
> ----------------------------
> transfer of 'example.com/IN' from 212.92.23.223#53: resetting
> transfer of 'example.com/IN' from 212.92.23.223#53: failed while
> receiving responses: CNAME and other data
> transfer of 'example.com/IN' from 212.92.23.223#53: end of transfer
> ----------------------------
> and of course bind don't accept the above even if he's the master.
> so my question who is right, but most important is there any other way
> than define an A record for the domain itself?

I'd turn the pointers around, so you'd have
$ORIGIN example.com.
                A              1.2.3.4
www            CNAME          example.com.
x              CNAME          example.com.

Roy