The dreaded CNAME

[Kevin Darcy]

It's illegal to have a CNAME with the same owner name as that of a zone.
You say an A record "is not an option". Well, I guess the irresistible
force just met the immovable object...



- Kevin

Digest wrote:

> What is the proper method for setting up a basic domain as a CNAME
> record in bind 8.2.4?
>
> Prior to bind 8.2.3, I was using something similar to the following:
>
> foo.com.   IN   SOA  ns.mydomain.net. hostmaster.mydomain.net. (
>                 99072719 86400 7200 3600000 28800 )
> foo.com.        IN      NS      ns.mydomain.net.
> foo.com.        IN      NS      ns2.mydomain.net.
> foo.com.        IN      CNAME   bar.com.
>
> However, since 8.2.3, I can no longer get away with this.
>
> What is the proper manner for pointing foo.com to bar.com, as an alias
> or CNAME?
>
> (And before you ask why I don't just use A records--In my situation, it
> is not an option.)