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Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 08:50:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: sysadmin@greeves.mfn.org
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: named-xfer dies (silently) when attempting to transfer files with particular CNAME records
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>Number:         7214
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       named-xfer dies (silently) when attempting to transfer files with particular CNAME records
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jul  8 09:00:01 PDT 1998
>Closed-Date:    Wed Jul 8 23:32:13 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:  Wed Jul  8 23:33:11 PDT 1998
>Originator:     J.A. Terranson
>Release:        2.2.5R
>Organization:
Missouri FreeNet
>Environment:
measl@ns1$ uname -a
FreeBSD ns1.mfn.org 2.2.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE #0: Tue Jul  7 17:50:53
CDT 1998     root@sycophant.mfn.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/NS1  i386
measl@ns1$
            
>Description:
named-xfer will silently die when attempting to transfer the attached (odd, but perfectly rfc-legal) db file.  If the CNAME reference at the bottom is removed, named-xfer will complete successfully.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@       IN SOA          ns1.mfn.org.    sysadmin.mfn.org. (
                        980101  ; serial
                        10800   ; 3 hr refresh
                        3600    ; 1 hr retry
                        604800  ; 1 week expiration
                        86400 ) ; 1 day ttl

;
; Name Servers
;
                        IN NS   ns1
ns1.mfn.org.            IN A    204.238.179.6
                        IN NS   ns2
ns2.mfn.org.            IN A    204.238.179.201

;
;MX
;
                        IN MX 10 greeves.mfn.org.
;
; host table
;
localhost                       IN A    127.0.0.1

sebastion.mfn.org.        IN A    204.238.179.1
greeves.mfn.org.          IN A    204.238.179.35
;
; aliases
;
mfn.org. IN CNAME greeves.mfn.org.
                                
>How-To-Repeat:
use above file
>Fix:
Workaround: If this type of reference is needed, then secondary dns
services will break.  Use 2 primary servers under these conditions.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, sysadmin@greeves.mfn.org
Cc:  Subject: Re:  misc/7214: named-xfer dies (silently) when attempting to transfer files with particular CNAME records
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 10:37:43 PDT

 >perfectly rfc-legal
 
 Not quite.  RFC 1034 says:
 
     If a CNAME RR is present at a node, no other data should be 
     present
 
 and since you have SOA and NS records for mfn.org, you may not have a
 CNAME for it.
 
   Bill
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: phk 
State-Changed-When: Wed Jul 8 23:32:13 PDT 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
in any case this is an issue that should be brought to the BIND 
maintainers, not FreeBSD 
>Unformatted:
