Domainname resolving to a systemname

[James Raftery]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 12:35:09PM -0700, Rick Reineman wrote:
> So for example llnl.gov would really resolve to perle.llnl.gov.
> I have tried the following in the db config file:
> 
> llnl.gov	IN CNAME	perle.llnl.gov

perle.llnl.gov seems to resolve to 134.9.151.186, so change that line to


llnl.gov.	IN A	134.9.151.186


> This generates errors in syslog: llnl.gov has CNAME and other data (invalid)...

Yes; CNAMEs can't co-exist with other records (it defeats the purpose of
defining a CNAME in the first place)

Regards,

james
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