Mirror Sites and CNAME

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Thu Apr 20 20:56:35 UTC 2000


A CNAME is a one-to-one alias. If you want a name to resolve to multiple
addresses, add multiple A records with the same name. Then you can add any
number of CNAMEs pointing to that A record.


- Kevin

Saqib Mustafa wrote:

> I am having a problem assigning one canonical name to multiple mirror
> sites. I can assign IPs to the mirror site through the IN A entry but when
> I try to assign the CNAME to multiple sites and then I run named I get an
> error.
>
> Saqib Mustafa
>
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