CNAMES to different domain
Thomas Deliduka
thomas at neweve.com
Wed Apr 26 18:54:40 UTC 2000
Wait, so what you're saying is that I could have the CNAME defined for www
like:
www.dialmattress.com. IN CNAME mattress.com.
But not for the straight domain.
I guess that defeats the point of having a CNAME point to a separate domain.
I wanted one place to change the IP if it ever changed rather than 100
different files.
On 4/26/00 2:44 PM Barry Margolin said:
> In article <B52C957F.BA65%thomas at neweve.com>,
> Thomas Deliduka <thomas at neweve.com> wrote:
>> My Datacenter recommended that since I have about 100 domains which point to
>> one real domain, they suggested just to make a CNAME to the main domain,
>> like this:
>>
>> dialamattress.com. IN CNAME mattress.com.
>>
>> Previously I was using bind 4.9.7 on NT and it seemed to work fine, now
>> moving to bind 8 on linux, the messages file gives me error messages and all
>> these domains are being ejected. Any suggestions?
>
> Get a new datacenter, preferably one that knows the rules of DNS.
>
> You can't have a CNAME record with the same name as your domain, because it
> violates the rule against a name having both a CNAME record and other
> records. Since the domain is required to have SOA and NS records, that
> precludes it having CNAME records.
>
> You could use CNAME records for www.dialamattress.com, but not for
> dialamattress.com.
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