getting CNAME to work for www.domain.com equals domain.com on http line

[Gregory Hicks]

> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> From: Jeff <jeep at rahul.net>
> Subject: getting CNAME to work for www.domain.com equals domain.com on 
http  line
> Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 08:43:25 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> Ive read post after post about this topic and I still cant seem to get
> it working.
> Here is my file, can someone tell me what is wrong to get make:
> 
> www.domain.com == domain.com on the http line?

The WEB SERVER has to be configured to do this.  Not a bind problem.

Regards,
GRegory Hicks

> 
> $TTL    86400
> domain.com.     1D IN SOA   www.domain.com. ns1.domain.com. (
>                     5       ; serial
>                     1H      ; refresh
>                     15M     ; retry
>                     1W      ; expiry
>                     1D )    ; minimum
> ;
> ; for pings etc
> domain.com. IN A xx.xx.xx.xx
> 
> ;
> ; Nameservers
>     1D IN NS    ns1.domain.com.
>     1D IN NS    ns2.domain.com.
> 
> ; Canonical names
> ns1     IN  A xx.xx.xx.1
> ns2     IN  A xx.xx.xx.2
> ; BEFORE CNAME - www        IN  A xx.xx.xx.xx
> mail    IN  A xx.xx.xx.xx
> 
> ; PTR
> 1   IN  PTR     ns1.domain.com.
> 2   IN  PTR     ns2.domain.com.
> ; 3 IN  PTR     www.domain.com.
> 4   IN  PTR     mail.domain.com.
> 5   IN  PTR     domain.com.
> 
> ; MX
> domain.com. IN  MX      1   mail.domain.com.
> 
> ; CNAME
> www.domain.com. IN CNAME domain.com.
> 
> Thanks
> 

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