linking .biz domain to com.au domain

Charles Bodley bodley at tflogic.com
Tue Nov 13 15:57:50 UTC 2001


I must be behind on my reading, this is the first I've heard of a new record
type. Where did you get the information so I can check it out.

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Behalf Of Barry Margolin
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 10:43 AM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
Subject: Re: linking .biz domain to com.au domain


In article <9sqh0h$b48 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
hugo  <hugo at fractalgraphics.com.au> wrote:
>
>Hi
>
>We have recently applied to have a .biz extension for our domain which
>means that it should be possible to use the .biz extension as a URL to
>get to our website. I have applied for the name:
>
>fractalgraphics.biz
>
>but currently our webserver is aliased to
>
>www.fractalgraphics.com.au
>
>with fractalgraphics.com.au being our domain name.
>
>I have two questions about this:
>
>1. How can I alias fractalgraphics.biz to our website at
>www.fractalgraphics.com.au? Does it have to be www.fractalgraphics.biz
>or can it be fractalgraphics.biz? What do I insert in which DNS file?
>
>I actually tried to make the alias referred to in question (1) in my DNS
>but obviously all computer aliases have to have the same domain
>extension i.e. end with "fractalgraphics.com.au" as that is our domain.
>Which leads to my second question:

You should have a separate zone for factalgraphics.biz:

zone "fractalgraphics.biz" {
  type master;
  file "db.fractalgraphics.biz";
};

The db.fractalgraphics.biz file will contain entries for this new domain.
It would probably contain:

@ IN SOA ...
  IN NS  ns1.iinet.net.au.
  IN NS  ns2.iinet.net.au.
  IN NS  godo.fractalgraphics.com.au.
  IN A   203.59.23.67
  IN MX  10 godo.fractalgraphics.com.au.
  IN MX  50 mx1.iinet.net.au.
  IN MX  75 mx2.iinet.net.au.
www IN CNAME www.fractalgraphics.com.au.

>2. Is it possible to alias a whole domain to another one e.g.
>"fractalgraphics.biz" to "fractalgraphics.com.au"? I am a bit muddled on
>this, as I only know about zones of type master and slave in the
>named.conf file, and I have no idea as to whether it is possible (nor
>practicable and useful) to alias an entire domain to another one. If
>this is a useful thing to do and possible, how can this be done? (An
>example of what lines to insert in the named.conf file or whatever would
>be highly appreciated.)

No, it's not currently possible to alias an entire domain.  There's a new
DNS record type that's intended to support it, but it's not widely
implemented yet.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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