DNS/BIND canonical name puzzle

[Jay Nugent]

Greetings Kevin,
   When you 'rndc reload' BIND, do you tail the /var/log/messages file to 
see if it tells you about any errors in this zone file?

      --- Jay


On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> 
> I've got a small domain that has all my machines, and it's working
> okay but I can't seem to do some of the things that I want.
> This mostly surrounds the resource records for the main machine,
> treat.kosmanor.com.
> 
> The database file contains these records right now (among others):
> kosmanor.com.	IN	SOA	treat.kosmanor.com. kogorman.pacbell.net. (
> 			200312030
> 			900
> 			7200
> 			14400
> 			1800 )
> kosmanor.com.	IN	NS	treat.kosmanor.com.
> treat.kosmanor.com.	IN	A	64.166.164.49
> kosmanor.com.		IN	A	64.166.164.49
> 
> This works okay, but I've been thinking to make just one of these
> names the canonical name.  It fails when I try.
> 
> It seems to me it would be best if "kosmanor.com" were the
> canonical name, because that's what goes in return addresses and
> such, and I use some services that are very picky about where
> the mail comes from.  However, if I change these lines to
> 
> kosmanor.com.	IN	SOA	kosmanor.com. kogorman.pacbell.net. (
> 			200312031
> 			900
> 			7200
> 			14400
> 			1800 )
> kosmanor.com.		IN	NS	kosmanor.com.
> kosmanor.com.		IN	A	64.166.164.49
> treat.kosmanor.com.	IN	CNAME	kosmanor.com.
> 
> 
> Now, the nameservers cannot resolve any of the names in this domain.
> 
> 
> This seems like it should work, but it doesn't.  Any clues?
> 
> ++ kevin
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Kevin O'Gorman  (805) 756-2986  mailto:kogorman at calpoly.edu
> Home Page: http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~kogorman
> 
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