Bind Newbie has questions about CNAMEs
Barry Margolin
barmar at bbnplanet.com
Mon Jan 17 20:53:58 UTC 2000
In article <MPG.12ebd67bfd5d54af989681 at betanews.enteract.com>,
Michael Schwager <schwager at enteract.com> wrote:
>Hi, (this article refers to Bind 8.2.2p5)
>I'm setting up my own domain, "schwager.com". I would like to create a
>CNAME to alias "schwager.com" to one of my hosts. So I create the
Come on, if this isn't one of *the* most FAQ's, I don't know what is. I
just answered someone else 2 minutes ago. Doesn't *anyone* read FAQs any
more?
The zone name cannot be a CNAME because it already has SOA and NS records,
and a CNAME can't have other records. Go the other way: make the domain
name be the A record and mirabai the CNAME. Or make the both A records.
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