Re: The RFC or the reason why you can not create CNAME record for the "root record"

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 05:12:06 -0500 Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

| RFC 1034 says: "The domain system provides such a feature [aliases]
| using the canonical name (CNAME) RR. A CNAME RR identifies its owner
| name as an alias, and specifies the corresponding canonical name in the
| RDATA section of the RR. If a CNAME RR is present at a node, no other
| data should be present; this ensures that the data for a canonical name
| and its aliases cannot be different."
|
| Since a delegated zone name is required to have SOA and NS records, if
| it also had a CNAME record it would violate the restriction in the last
| sentence.

So how do we fix this? I think a hack/patch is the only way. But I see
two different ways to approach that. Which one is likely to work in most
cases?

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