What is wrong with this?

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> on 06/05/2001 10:50 PM, Kevin Darcy at kcd at daimlerchrysler.com wrote:
> 
> > 
> > You can't. The most you can do is make testdomain.net resolve to the same
> > IP address as testdomain.com resolves to, by creating a testdomain.net A
> > record
> > with the same RDATA aka right-hand-side contents. You can't "alias" a
> > registered
> > domain to some other registered domain. That doesn't even make sense. It wo
> uld
> > essentially orphan all of the entries underneath the "aliased" domain name
> > (e.g.
> > if example.com is "aliased" to foo.com, then www.example.com goes into some
> > sort
> > of limbo).
> 
> 
> Well let's say it is bob.net and I want it to go to bob.com and I do not
> care about other services since a record like
> bob.net. IN MX 10 mail.bob.com. takes care of this need for an MX record.  I
> am confused because before BIND I was using QuickDNS Pro and the approach
> that I had taken before worked well but it brakes in BIND

	You just think it worked well.  CNAME at top of zone cause
	all sorts of breakages.

	Mark
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