http redirection in bind

[saravanan ganapathy]

--- Brad Knowles <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org> wrote:

> At 5:43 AM -0800 2005-01-11, saravanan ganapathy
> wrote:
> 
> >  Is it possible to configure as
> >
> >  abc.com. CNAME  xyz.com.
> 
> 	Sure, that's not a problem.  As far as the DNS is
> concerned, 
> everything is just a label, and you can CNAME most
> any label to any 
> other.
> 
> 	Of course, there are restrictions to using CNAMEs. 
> Doing this 
> would mean that abc.com could not have any NSes
> defined for it, nor 
> any MXes, nor any sub-domains, nor any other records
> of any type -- 
> the DNS standard prohibits any other type of record
> existing for a 
> given label if you have defined a CNAME for it.
> 
> >  ( I think its not possible, but want to confirm)
> 
> 	It's possible.  It may not work the way you want,
> but it's 
> certainly possible.
> 

My config file looks like 

www                    CNAME    abc.com.
xyz.com.               CNAME    abc.com.

But the xyz.com mapping is not working. Log file says
that " dns_master_load: myhosts:16: ignoring
out-of-zone data (xyz.com) "

What may be the problem?

Sarav


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