Re: DNS master and NOTIFY

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:43:42AM -0400, Haim Dimermanas wrote:
> 
> >  My problem is the following : the master sends NOTIFY request to the
> > slaves for that zone every 8 seconds (sometimes 10 sec, sometimes 4
> > sec).
> 
>  Thanks to the folks from the South Florida Linux User Exchange, we
> found the solution.
> 
>  dudle.net has ns1.linuxroot.org as his authority DNS server.
> ns1.linuxroot.org. is a CNAME to loon.linuxroot.org. I had no idea it
> was a "Bad Thing" to do. After replacing the CNAME by a proper A record,
> everything works perfectly. Thanks to all of you who helped me.
> 
Oh yes, you'll have trouble with MX records point to CNAMEs too.

I used to use CNAMEs all the time when I started, now I don't use them at all.

Mike