@home.lan

[Thor Kottelin]

Thomas Gagne wrote:

> I've setup my DNS as home.lan so as
> not to confused anything on the internet.

> Now, if I could only figure out how to create a CNAME for an address not on my
> LAN.  At work I've aliased the mail gateway to "smtp" so my mail client only
> has to connect to "smtp."  When I'm at home, I want "smtp" aliased to
> "smtp.ix.netcom.com."

$ORIGIN	home.lan.
smtp	CNAME	smtp.ix.netcom.com.

Note that this requires a query for "smtp.home.lan.", so "home.lan" would
need to be in your resolver search list.

Thor

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