how to allow domain.com as well as www.domain.com ?
Michael Voight
mvoight at cisco.com
Wed Jun 16 13:57:05 UTC 1999
I was under the impression that since domain.com would already have
other records, it can not have a cname record.
Michael
Mark.Kasper at icn.siemens.com wrote:
>
> I have been following this thread with interest, trying the suggestions as they
> are presented. It seems we are back to square one. nslookup for domain.com with
> the following configuration results in "hostname.domain.com can't find
> domain.com : Server failed"
>
> hostname.domain.com. IN A <IP Address>
> www.domain.com. IN CNAME hostname.domain.com.
> domain.com. IN CNAME <IP address> (as suggested below)
>
> Cricket, did you mean something else?
>
> Regards,
> Mark
>
> ---------------------- Forwarded by Mark Kasper/Service/ICN on 06/16/99 08:24 AM
> ---------------------------
>
> "Cricket Liu" <cricket at acmebw.com> on 06/16/99 01:40:56 AM
>
> To: bind-users at isc.org
> cc: (bcc: Mark Kasper/Service/ICN)
> Subject: Re: how to allow domain.com as well as www.domain.com ?
>
> Michael Voight <mvoight at cisco.com> wrote in message
> news:<37669609.57412127 at cisco.com>...
> > In the zone file for domain.com.
> >
> > domain.com. in cname www.domain.com.
>
> You can't do this. domain.com already has an SOA record and at least one NS
> record, so adding a CNAME record for it is illegal.
>
> The only way to do this is
>
> domain.com. IN CNAME <address of www.domain.com>
>
> cricket
>
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>
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