resolving dns name to another dns name?

[John Horne]

On Fri, August 5, 2005 22:22, David Boyer said:
> Okay, I'm being told I can create a CNAME entry that will allow us to
> resolve a DNS name to another DNS name, basically causing a redirect:
>
> www.ourdomain.com     IN    CNAME    www.theirdomain.com
                ^^^^                                   ^^^^

I assume it was a typo that there are no dots on the domain ends? Without
them the CNAME remains in the current zone (i.e. your 'www.ourdomain.com'
is perhaps being resolved as 'www.ourdomain.com.ourdomain.com').


John.

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