how to allow domain.com as well as www.domain.com ?
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Wed Jun 16 13:09:55 UTC 1999
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> I have been following this thread with interest, trying the suggestions as th
> ey
> are presented. It seems we are back to square one. nslookup for domain.com wi
> th
> the following configuration results in "hostname.domain.com can't find
> domain.com : Server failed"
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> hostname.domain.com. IN A <IP Address>
> www.domain.com. IN CNAME hostname.domain.com.
> domain.com. IN CNAME <IP address> (as suggested below)
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> Cricket, did you mean something else?
Cricket ment an A record.
Read his comments and think about which records have an
IP address on the right hand side.
Mark
>
> Regards,
> Mark
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> ---------------------- Forwarded by Mark Kasper/Service/ICN on 06/16/99 08:24
> AM
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> "Cricket Liu" <cricket at acmebw.com> on 06/16/99 01:40:56 AM
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> To: bind-users at isc.org
> cc: (bcc: Mark Kasper/Service/ICN)
> Subject: Re: how to allow domain.com as well as www.domain.com ?
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> Michael Voight <mvoight at cisco.com> wrote in message
> news:<37669609.57412127 at cisco.com>...
> > In the zone file for domain.com.
> >
> > domain.com. in cname www.domain.com.
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> You can't do this. domain.com already has an SOA record and at least one NS
> record, so adding a CNAME record for it is illegal.
>
> The only way to do this is
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> domain.com. IN CNAME <address of www.domain.com>
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> cricket
>
> Acme Byte & Wire
> cricket at acmebw.com
> www.acmebw.com
>
> Attend our next DNS and BIND class! See
> www.acmebw.com/training.htm for the
> schedule and to register for upcoming
> classes.
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