alias naming by a newbie problem

[Kevin Darcy]

Since the two zones appear to have differing information (there are "associate
subdomains" in one, but not  the other), you probably wouldn't want to use the
same file for both of them. So just ignore the suggestion in the last
paragraph of my message.

If you make the left-hand-side of all your SOA records an "@", then you could
still probably purge all of those ugly $ORIGIN's. Did these files originate as
secondary files? I don't know of any *human* who regularly throws in
$ORIGIN directives like this...


- Kevin


Scott.Wiseman wrote:

> Is this what you are talking about...there are 2 files db.santee-homes(1st)
> and 91901realestate(2nd)
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> ;    File:      db.zoneinfo for santee-homes.com
> ;    Purpose:   This file establishes the name/address information
> ;               for this zone.  You will have to fill out the actual
> ;               information for your specific zone in the format shown
> ;               in the comments.
> ;
> ;
> @ORIGIN com.
> santee-homes    IN SOA remax.remaxhost.com. swiseman at realestatenet.com. (
>                         1999051800      ; Serial(yyyymmddnn)
>                         10800           ; Refresh(3h)
>                         1800            ; Retry(1h)
>                         604800          ; Expire(1wk)
>                         5               ; Min TTL(1d)
>                         )
> ; Name Servers
>                 IN NS   remax.remaxhost.com.
>                 IN A    216.184.208.175
>                 IN MX   10 mail.remaxhost.com.
> ; Host Names
> $ORIGIN santee-homes.com.
> localhost       IN A    127.0.0.1
> www             IN A    216.184.208.175
> mail            IN A    216.184.208.175
>
> ; associate subdomains
>                         IN      A       216.184.208.175
> alangill                IN      A       216.184.208.175
> bhowland                IN      A       216.184.208.175
> bstewart                IN      A       216.184.208.175
> dneiss                  IN      A       216.184.208.175
> gwhalen                 IN      A       216.184.208.175
> jdavidson               IN      A       216.184.208.175
> kbattee                 IN      A       216.184.208.175
> kroesch                 IN      A       216.184.208.175
> mstewart                IN      A       216.184.208.175
> pdavidson               IN      A       216.184.208.175
> rlewis                  IN      A       216.184.208.175
> sbowers                 IN      A       216.184.208.175
> ;
>
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> ;
> ;    File:      db.zoneinfo for 91901realestate.com
> ;    Purpose:   This file establishes the name/address information
> ;               for this zone.  You will have to fill out the actual
> ;               information for your specific zone in the format shown
> ;               in the comments.
> ;
> ;
> @ORIGIN com.
> 91901realestate         IN      SOA     remax.remaxhost.com.
> swiseman.realestatenet.com. (
>                         2000011200      ;       Serial Number
>                           10800 ;       Domain Refresh Interval
>                            3600 ;       Failed Query Retry Interval
>                          604800 ;       Domain Cache Expiration Interval
>                            3600 ;)
>                         IN      NS      remax.remaxhost.com.
>                         IN      A       santee-homes.com
>
> ;       End of File
>
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Darcy [mailto:kcd at daimlerchrysler.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 5:29 PM
> To: 'bind-users at isc.org'
> Subject: Re: alias naming by a newbie problem
>
> A CNAME cannot have non-CNAME records associated with it. Either the name
> aliases to another name or it doesn't; you can't have it both ways. Look at
> your zone file: you have an SOA, an NS (shouldn't there be at least
> *two* NS'es, by the way?) and an A record all associated with the name
> "91901realestate.com". Because of the existence of those other records, the
> CNAME is illegal.
>
> Simple solution: instead of a CNAME, just replace the contents of the
> "91901realestate.com" A record with the address of the "santee-homes.com"
> A record.
>
> Additionally, if you want "91901realestate.com" and "santee-homes.com" to
> always have *identical* information, and you want to save yourself a little
> maintenance, then you could use the same zone file for both zones, as long
> as you eliminate the $ORIGIN directives and use "@" as the left-hand-side
> of the SOA record. That way, all of the names are "relative", and named
> will interpret the same labels as "91901realestate.com" names when it loads
> the file as the "91901realestate.com" zone, and "santee-homes.com" names
> when it loads the file as the "santee-homes.com" zone.
>
> - Kevin
>
> Scott.Wiseman wrote:
>
> > I want the 91901realestate.com to point to santee-homes.com
> >
> > what is the problem?
> >
> > Help
> >
> > ;
> > ;    File:      db.zoneinfo for accorddanville.com
> > ;    Purpose:   This file establishes the name/address information
> > ;               for this zone.  You will have to fill out the actual
> > ;               information for your specific zone in the format shown
> > ;               in the comments.
> > ;
> > ;
> > $ORIGIN com.
> > 91901realestate         IN      SOA     remax.remaxhost.com.
> > webmaster.remaxhost.com. (
> >                         2000011200      ;       Serial Number
> >                           10800 ;       Domain Refresh Interval
> >                            3600 ;       Failed Query Retry Interval
> >                          604800 ;       Domain Cache Expiration Interval
> >                            3600 ;)
> >                         IN      NS      remax.remaxhost.com.
> >                         IN      A       216.184.208.175
> >
> > ; Host Names
> > $ORIGIN 91901realestate.com.
> > localhost               IN A    127.0.0.1
> > www                     IN A    216.184.208.175
> > ;
> > ;        Canonical Name Records
> >
> > 91901realestate.com     IN      CNAME   santee-homes.com.
> >
> > ;       End of File
> >
> > ________________________________________________________________________