Nameserver question...

[Brad Knowles]

At 7:29 PM -0700 7/31/01, meliorasf wrote:

>  ...where ns3.mydomain.com is just a CNAME set up in my DNS that points
>  to ns1.otherdomain.com (assuming permission granted to do so by
>  otherdomain.com admin).
>
>  My feeling is that this is not the right way to set it up, but I was
>  unable to find any FAQs or other info specifically about it.

	Nope.  Aliases (the left-hand side of a CNAME record) cannot be 
the target of NS records.  If you want to do this, you'll have to 
list the name within your own zone but provide the external IP 
address.

	Of course, if anyone does a reverse lookup on that IP address, 
they'll find out the real name of that machine, so all your trickery 
to try to hide this is totally pointless.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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