CNAME only zone?

[Lightner, Jeff]

"Also note that other workarounds will solve the same problem in a better way."

Care to enlighten me as to what those workarounds would be?

Also - why is it a registrar can do a CNAME only but we mere mortals can't?  In fact documentation from Amazon (it is apparently their web store I've since learned) suggests doing it at registrar so I'll probably go that route but I'm wondering why it should work there but not on one of my delegated name servers.





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From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water.com at lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water.com at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of /dev/rob0
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 12:41 PM
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Subject: Re: CNAME only zone?

On Friday 09 December 2011 10:25:36 Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> Is it possible to create a zone file that only contains a CNAME?

As already answered, no.

> The request I got is to create a CNAME to point shop4water.com to
> shop4water.hostedbywebtstore.com.

You can ask your registrar if they can/will do this in the parent
"com." zone. I have seen ugliness of this type from either Network
Solutions or register.com before, not sure which.

> We own shop4water.com - hostedbywebstore.com is something external
> that we don't own.

Do note that hostedbywebtstore is not the same as hostedbywebstore;
we're sticklers for precise spelling.

Also note that other workarounds will solve the same problem in a
better way.
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