forwarding

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a35f98$8nk at pub3.rc.vix.com>, M Alkhan  <enyva at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>I'm trying to forward a domain name to another domain
>name (not IP address). The problem is that the target
>site doesn't work with IP address. Therefore, when I
>used domainx   in cname  domainy, I had an error
>message (page cannot be accessed through IP address).

It's hard to tell exactly what you're doing from this message.  Are you
trying to make the same name as the SOA record also be an alias?  You can't
do that, because it violates the rule against "CNAME and other data".  You
could use "www.domainx IN CNAME domainy".

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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