Simple question about zone and CNAME
Warren Kumari
warren at kumari.net
Fri Apr 5 13:16:09 UTC 2013
On Apr 5, 2013, at 5:23 AM, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 04/05/2013 10:13 AM, Thomas Manson wrote:
>
>> @ IN CNAME somehost.com
>
> Correct. CNAMEs are mutually exclusive with other records (DNSSEC signatures excepted) and zone apex requires SOA and NS.
>
> <http://somehost.com>
>>
>> How can I achive this configuration ?
>
> You will have to use an A record. Our DNS system allows "CNAME" at zone apex, but it resolves it to A/AAAA records when building the DNS zone.
>
>> Is there another way to specify the address of http://mysite.com ?
>>
>> I would like to avoid pointing on an IP adress directly as I'm managing
>
> Can't be avoided.
DNAME? <runs away, giggling…>
W
>
>> a few hundred of domain and among them, I don't manage some domain of
>> some client, which is then very painful and time consuming to make them
>> do some change.
>
> Automate the zone editing, as above.
>
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