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[Bryan Irvine]

On 12/7/06, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 14:55 -0800, Bryan Irvine wrote:
> > I'm trying to point kingcountyjournal.com to our hosting companies
> > server at usnlbc.us.publicus.com.
>
> You mean that you want the name "kingcountyjournal.com" to resolve to
> the address of "usnlbc.us.publicus.com", namely 209.225.11.186?
>
> Because "kingcountyjournal.com" is the name of a domain, you can't use
> it as the name of an alias (CNAME).

ahhhhh, now I get it.  Thanks for the cluestick. :-)