DNS: Full domain names needed!

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:24:49AM +1100, Sam Wun wrote:
> I would expect nslookup 172.16.1.1 should show me the Name www.sam.com as
> well?
> What may be wrong with my setting then?

If that is all you want, change the "A" record to show

mishi.bidbid.com	IN CNAME	www.sam.com

But now you may not use this in your NS record!  Instead, you should
use the "canonical" [true] name, www.sam.com.  Similarly, you may not
use this name in an MX record, or have any more records that have
"mishi.bidbid.com" on the left-hand side.

You may prefer to leave it as it is.

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