What is wrong with this?

[Peter Apockotos]

Well I figured that the reverse would be testdomain.com. what do you
recommend??  I do not want to waste IP addresses on Multiple domains that
end up pointing to the one domain.


on 06/06/2001 10:34 PM, Kevin Darcy at kcd at daimlerchrysler.com wrote:

> 
> Well, it may not be quite so obvious as that. This is a *reverse* record,
> remember.
> The address in question could have multiple names pointing to it -- in
> addition to
> the zone-apex names like testdomain.com and/or testdomain.net, you might also
> have
> www.testdomain.com, www.testdomain.net and who knows what else pointing to the
> same
> address. Since you can effectively only have one reverse record for any given
> address, if you're dealing with any apps/systems/organizations that care about
> reverse lookups, you may want to choose the contents of that reverse record
> carefully.
> 
> 
> - Kevin
> 
> Peter Apockotos wrote:
> 
>> 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:
>>> 
>>>> 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:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 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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