Resolving aliases

[Barry Margolin]

In article <38A7EE82.28EDF243 at eunet.at>, EDV BWS  <edv.bws at eunet.at> wrote:
>I have a problem resolving aliases.
>
>I have a DNS-Server for zone b.c, and delegation to zone a.b.c works
>(trying to ping host1.a.b.c from domain b.c is okay).
>
>If I make an entry on den b.c-DNS-Server:
>
>host1 IN CNAME host1.a.b.c.
>
>it is not possible to do a "ping host1".
>
>I thought when resolving aliases, the name on the right hand side is
>resolved.
>
>Why does the parent find it's child when using the FQDN, but not when
>using aliases? Is the query resolved vie root servers?

It seems to me that it *should* work.  If you gave real examples instead of
made up names maybe we could tell you what you did wrong.  Your example
probably don't have the same error that the real file has.

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