two domains 1 IP

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:38:22PM +0200, omphile wrote:
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> I want to have two domains (myman.com & myman.bw )use one name server .
> The nameserver  currently has the myman.bw domain. I've added myman.com
> zone in named.conf & created a separate file for the zone. My question
> is it possible to have 2 names referencing the same machine.
> ns1.myman.com & ns.myman.bw with 1 IP.  ...

Sure.  Why not?

>				     ...  If its possible, what will
> happen if say  one client program claims to be from myman.bw  domain &
> the server  program does a reverse lookup and it gets a myman.com
> domain?

Depends on the program.  Many programs that go that far go one step
further and do another confirming forward lookup.

What you are proposing has been done an awful lot already.  ;-)

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