Weird DNS question

[Zbigniew Koziol]

Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm having an "issue" with the friendly neighbourghood helpdesk.
>
>    1. We own a domain  bar.ca
>
>    2. The webmaster of the site has asked to create a CNAME for this
>       domain:
>       foo.bar.ca CNAME server.domain.ws
>       (yes, that's .ws  -- Western Samoa)
>
>    3. The local admins are saying they can't do this without locally
>       defining an entry for server.domain.ws and that they can't make
>       an entry for an "oddball" TLD such as .ws
>
>

I am not sure, I might be entirely wrong. But isnt DNS request for TLD 
domain like .ws going to entity that has jurisdiction over
that TLD ? I think there are quite some restrictions around there. Some 
countries have quite strict rules. For instance, I know that there are 
some restrictions in case of .PL domains. One could register and host a 
.PL domain outside of Poland and that happens often but that requires 
permission from an institution in Poland.

Or am I messing up something?

zb.


> I *hate* "you can't get there from here" answers.
>
> If the folks at <domain.ws> have properly configured *their* DNS for 
> host <server>, is it not enough for our CNAME (which is just an alias) 
> to just point to it without needing to recreate it?
>
> Is there other voodoo that I'm missing here?
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> - Evan
>

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