BIND 8 slave & BIND 4.x primary
Barry Margolin
barmar at bbnplanet.com
Thu Aug 19 18:47:46 UTC 1999
In article <47c7e38c.24eda8c8 at aol.com>, <SOLARlS at aol.com> wrote:
>In a message dated 8/16/99 10:29:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>barmar at bbnplanet.com writes:
>
>When I said that I just made CNAME records for any domains that share the
>same IP address I meant this is how i did it. Each domain still had its own
>.db file. Is a zone just another name for domain?
Close enough, and I don't feel like going into the technical distinction.
>;
> IN NS ns1.websgt.net.
> IN NS ns2.jtinternet.com.
>;
>localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
>123homebusiness.net. IN CNAME uc.websgt.net.
>www.123homebusiness.net. IN CNAME uc.websgt.net.
>
>I noticed that any .db files that I had created in this format didn't
>transfer. The only ones that transfered are the ones that had A records
>pointing to an IP address instead of CNAME records. I thought I was going to
>cut a corner and make it easy to change IP addresses if I wanted to. But I
>guess I was wrong. Do you have any feedback?
You can't use a CNAME record for 123homebusiness.net. A name cannot have
both a CNAME record and other records. Since that name has SOA and NS
records, it can't also have CNAME records.
>As of right now the only problem i have is that even though I have given each
>domain (zone) its own .db file if I am using CNAME records instead of A
>records the info wont copy over.
That's because of the above rule, which has been explained many times in
this group, and I'm sure must be in the FAQ.
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Barry Margolin, barmar at bbnplanet.com
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