Domain aliases with bind 8

Mark_Andrews at isc.org Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Wed Jan 23 22:55:03 UTC 2002


> In article <a2mnna$nsr at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
>  <g.casanoNOSPAM at logosengineering.com> wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I am a unexperienced dns administrator; the software I usually manage 
> >is bind 9.x.
> >Do anybody know how can I set up bind configuration files in order to redire
> ct
> > connections for two different domain (i.e. xxx.yy and xxx.zz)
> > to another (xxx.ww)?
> >
> >Thanks in advance,
> 
> There's a DNAME record that can be used to alias an entire domain, but I
> don't think it's widely supported yet.

	As long all the servers for the zone support it you don't need to
	worry.  DNAME was designed to interact correctly with servers that
	didn't know about it.
 
> You can alias individual names within the domains to names in the other
> domain, e.g.
> 
> www.xxx.yy. IN CNAME www.xxx.ww.
> 
> If you want to alias the domain name itself, you'll have to use an A
> record:
> 
> xxx.yy. IN A <address of xxx.ww>
> 
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