On Sep 12, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Jan-Piet Mens <[email protected]> wrote:
>> $ORIGIN foo.com.
>> @ IN NS ns.nsservers.com.
>>  IN MX 1 my.email.com.
>>  IN CNAME mysite.hostingprovider.com.
> 
> No CNAME and other data -- that is illegal. (c.f. [1] :-)
> 
>        -JP
> 
> [1]: https://twitter.com/dns_borat/status/141872826536837121

Mumble.

I had a "P.S. Yes, I know CNAME at zone apex is illegal, I'm merely responding 
to Andrew's question" in my message but figured no one on the dns-operations 
list would think anyone on the list wouldn't know this.  My bad.

Yes, I'm quite well aware that CNAME and other data is illegal, thanks. 
However, non-DNS people see value in it, configure it, and then get quite 
unhappy when various rare applications (e.g., Microsoft Exchange) get confused. 
Quoting RFCs at folks, particularly when there are (arguably) reasonable 
unambiguous ways in which it could be implemented, typically generates more 
unhappiness. So it goes.

Regards,
-drc


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