Creating a CNAME to another domain.

[Kevin Darcy]

Danny Mayer wrote:
> Kevin Darcy wrote:
>   
>> Ezra Taylor wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello All:
>>>                How can I create a CNAME that points to another
>>> domain.  Example below.  Is the below example possible?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> stars.mydomain.com <http://stars.mydomain.com>     IN    CNAME     
>>> stars.otherdomain.com <http://stars.otherdomain.com>.
>>>
>>>       
>> If stars.mydomain.com is just an ordinary name in the mydomain.com zone,
>> then there is no problem with what you show above (except,
>> syntactically, you need the trailing dot, as was already pointed out).
>>
>> If, on the other hand, stars.mydomain.com is a *zone*, then it's not
>> possible, because in that case there would be "apex" records (records
>> whose name is the same as that of the zone); at a minimum, an SOA and at
>> least 2 NS records, which are required for each and every zone. When a
>> particular name owns a CNAME record, it cannot also own SOA or NS records.
>>     
>
> Not true. For a Domain alias use a DNAME:
>
> mydomain.com.	IN 	DNAME	otherdomain.com.
>   
Bearing in mind that the OP asked specifically about creation of CNAMEs, 
which part is "not true"?

                                                                         
      - Kevin