What is wrong with this?

[Peter Apockotos]

Well obviously I want it to go to testdomain.com like I want testdomain.net
to go there as well.

on 06/06/2001 03:47 PM, Kevin Darcy at kcd at daimlerchrysler.com wrote:

> 
> Yes. But you may have to make a choice about where to point the reverse
> records.
> 
> 
> - Kevin
> 
> Peter Apockotos wrote:
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>> So then it is ok to give the same IP addresses that the testdomain.com has
>> to the testdomain.net ?
>> 
>> on 06/06/2001 01:34 AM, Mark.Andrews at nominum.com at Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
>> wrote:
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>>>> on 06/05/2001 10:50 PM, Kevin Darcy at kcd at daimlerchrysler.com wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> You can't. The most you can do is make testdomain.net resolve to the same
>>>>> IP address as testdomain.com resolves to, by creating a testdomain.net A
>>>>> record
>>>>> with the same RDATA aka right-hand-side contents. You can't "alias" a
>>>>> registered
>>>>> domain to some other registered domain. That doesn't even make sense. It
>>>>> wo
>>>> uld
>>>>> essentially orphan all of the entries underneath the "aliased" domain name
>>>>> (e.g.
>>>>> if example.com is "aliased" to foo.com, then www.example.com goes into
>>>>> some
>>>>> sort
>>>>> of limbo).
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Well let's say it is bob.net and I want it to go to bob.com and I do not
>>>> care about other services since a record like
>>>> bob.net. IN MX 10 mail.bob.com. takes care of this need for an MX record.
>>>> I
>>>> am confused because before BIND I was using QuickDNS Pro and the approach
>>>> that I had taken before worked well but it brakes in BIND
>>> 
>>> You just think it worked well.  CNAME at top of zone cause
>>> all sorts of breakages.
>>> 
>>> Mark
>>> --
>>> Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc.
>>> 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
>>> PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
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