DNS CNAME and tumblr

[mackinpuff]

Hello everyone!

I'm trying to forward a new domain to a tumblr page so that the tumblr blog is the actual website behind my http address.

When I follow the instructions here (https://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/custom_domains) and point my domain (e.g. "domain.com.") to domains.tumblr.com I get the following error:

Unable to save dns zone: named-checkzone returned:
loading "ruimtevoorgesprek.nl" from "/var/named/ruimtevoorgesprek.nl.db.temp" class "IN"
dns_master_load: /var/named/ruimtevoorgesprek.nl.db.temp:31: ruimtevoorgesprek.nl: CNAME and other data
dns_master_load: /var/named/ruimtevoorgesprek.nl.db.temp:31: ruimtevoorgesprek.nl: CNAME and other data
dns_master_load: /var/named/ruimtevoorgesprek.nl.db.temp:35: ruimtevoorgesprek.nl: CNAME and other data
zone ruimtevoorgesprek.nl/IN: loading from master file /var/named/ruimtevoorgesprek.nl.db.temp failed: CNAME and other data
zone ruimtevoorgesprek.nl/IN: not loaded due to errors.

Can someone tell me why this doesn't work, or what I am doing wrong?

Cheers!

 

[zEitEr]

Hello,

From the link you posted (https://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/custom_domains) in your thread it can be seen:

[TABLE="class: outer_border, width: 600"]
[TR]
[TH="class: header"]Domain[/TH]
[TH="class: header"]Configuration[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TH="bgcolor: #F9F9F9"]Two Levels
(e.g. mywebsite.com)[/TH]
[TD]point A-record (IP address) to 66.6.44.4[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TH="bgcolor: #F9F9F9"]Three or More Levels
(e.g. www.mywebsite.com or blog.mywebsite.com)[/TH]
[TD]point CNAME record to "domains.tumblr.com"[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
it's not allowed and even not possible to have CNAME record for the zone name itself. So you can't create CNAME for ruimtevoorgesprek.nl. You can create CNAME only for www.ruimtevoorgesprek.nl or anything-here.ruimtevoorgesprek.nl.

Found with Google:

A CNAME-record cannot exist with any other records for the same name, because a name cannot both be an alias (CNAME) and something else at the same time.From RFC1912 section 2.4:
"A CNAME record is not allowed to coexist with any other data."
If you try to create a CNAME-record for the name of the zone itself, you will always encounter this conflict because a zone always has at least a SOA-record and typically one or more NS-records with the zone name

 

[mackinpuff]

Hello,

From the link you posted (https://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/custom_domains) in your thread it can be seen:

[TABLE="class: outer_border, width: 600"]
[TR]
[TH="class: header"]Domain[/TH]
[TH="class: header"]Configuration[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TH="bgcolor: #F9F9F9"]Two Levels
(e.g. mywebsite.com)[/TH]
[TD]point A-record (IP address) to 66.6.44.4[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TH="bgcolor: #F9F9F9"]Three or More Levels
(e.g. www.mywebsite.com or blog.mywebsite.com)[/TH]
[TD]point CNAME record to "domains.tumblr.com"[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
it's not allowed and even not possible to have CNAME record for the zone name itself. So you can't create CNAME for ruimtevoorgesprek.nl. You can create CNAME only for www.ruimtevoorgesprek.nl or anything-here.ruimtevoorgesprek.nl.

Found with Google:

Thank you. I don't consider myself untechnical but everything related to DNS is completely new for me. I just couldn't make much sense of any of it! This helps.