What is wrong with this?

Peter Apockotos MacOSX at tampabay.rr.com
Wed Jun 6 15:34:12 UTC 2001


So then it is ok to give the same IP addresses that the testdomain.com has
to the testdomain.net ?


on 06/06/2001 01:34 AM, Mark.Andrews at nominum.com at Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
wrote:

> 
>> 
>> on 06/05/2001 10:50 PM, Kevin Darcy at kcd at daimlerchrysler.com wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> You can't. The most you can do is make testdomain.net resolve to the same
>>> IP address as testdomain.com resolves to, by creating a testdomain.net A
>>> record
>>> with the same RDATA aka right-hand-side contents. You can't "alias" a
>>> registered
>>> domain to some other registered domain. That doesn't even make sense. It wo
>> uld
>>> essentially orphan all of the entries underneath the "aliased" domain name
>>> (e.g.
>>> if example.com is "aliased" to foo.com, then www.example.com goes into some
>>> sort
>>> of limbo).
>> 
>> 
>> Well let's say it is bob.net and I want it to go to bob.com and I do not
>> care about other services since a record like
>> bob.net. IN MX 10 mail.bob.com. takes care of this need for an MX record.  I
>> am confused because before BIND I was using QuickDNS Pro and the approach
>> that I had taken before worked well but it brakes in BIND
> 
> You just think it worked well.  CNAME at top of zone cause
> all sorts of breakages.
> 
> Mark
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