[dns-operations] does anybody know why yahoo+akamai are doing this?

[Niall O'Reilly]

On 21 Mar 2006, at 18:38, Paul Vixie wrote:

> RFC 1034 assumes that CNAMEs will not have out-of-zone targets

I'm having trouble finding this assumption in RFC 1034.

Moreover, on page 15 I find the following example.

     USC-ISIC.ARPA   IN      CNAME   C.ISI.EDU

This RR appears again in the example starting on page 36, where the
ARPA TLD is shown in the root zone, and the EDU TLD has its own zone.

These illustrations appear inconsistent with the suggested assumption.


/Niall