BIND 8 slave & BIND 4.x primary

[Barry Margolin]

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.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at bbnplanet.com
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