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Re: BIND 9.2.1 patch, multiple RR's for singleton types.
From: der Mouse <mouse () Rodents Montreal QC CA>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 09:54:43 -0400 (EDT)
fuzzy IN CNAME www.snuggie.com. IN CNAME www.r-9.net.
The real solution to the question you pose is to fix the underlying problem at source (forgive the pun). Get rid of the illegal multiple CNAMEs. For the example above, just provide two A records for fuzzie that have the IP addresses of www.snuggie.com and ww.r-9.net. And put some comments in the zone file and version control logs explaining what these RRs are for and why they are there. This will save another maintenance headache for your eventual successor.
While creating a maintenance headache whenever www.snuggie.com and/or www.r-9.net happen to modify the list of addresses they resolve to. This "solution" creates problems of its own; it is no more a "real solution" than the other. The only real benefit I can see to it is that it doesn't involve fixing the underlying lack and thus requires no effort from the rest of the world, and even that is a benefit only to that "rest of the world", not to the person you are offering it as a "solution" to. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse () rodents montreal qc ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
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- BIND 9.2.1 patch, multiple RR's for singleton types. Tim Gladding (Jul 02)
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- Re: BIND 9.2.1 patch, multiple RR's for singleton types. der Mouse (Jul 04)
- Re: BIND 9.2.1 patch, multiple RR's for singleton types. Tim Gladding (Jul 04)
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- Re: BIND 9.2.1 patch, multiple RR's for singleton types. Jim Reid (Jul 02)