linking .biz domain to com.au domain

[Kevin Darcy]

Barry Margolin wrote:

> 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.

Hmmm... Are you *sure* it's not possible? If the OP doesn't care about subdomains
-- this wasn't clear from the original post -- all it would take is a CNAME in the
.biz zone file. I know that the traditional gTLD's -- .com, .net and .org -- don't
accept requests for CNAMEs, but since .biz is fairly new, maybe they have
different policies...


- Kevin