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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello bind users.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are running bind 9.14.28 on Ubuntu and have an offsite provider for our DNS services.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The cname we create for our webserver <a href="http://www.wadsworth.org">
www.wadsworth.org</a> is working well.<br>
However, I’ve been asked if we can point the apex record at the external webserver.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If I’m understanding the docs I’ve looked at, there are ways if we had external DNS services, rather than the on-prem Bind server, or if bind supported the Alias RR.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I know it can, but does not natively, or at least not the document I found which indicates we’d need to modify the source code.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m looking for guidance on how to point the named domain name, the apex record at the IP addresses provided by the cname name we are using for our webserver.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Brian<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Brian Cuttler, System and Network Administration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Wadsworth Center, NYS Department of Health<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Albany, NY 12201 POB 509<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">518 486-1697</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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