linking .biz domain to com.au domain

[Kevin Darcy]

You'd just be aliasing that *domain*, i.e. that particular name. You wouldn't be
aliasing a *zone*. That's why I added the caveat "If the OP doesn't care about
subdomains". Remember that technically every name in the DNS is a "domain".


- Kevin

Michael Kjorling wrote:

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> But would BIND buy it? Doesn't it require a zone to have SOA and NS
> records? "No NS records for zone ...", wasn't there a message like
> that?
>
> Of course, one technically possible solution would be to claim
> authority for the entire biz zone, but that would be a bad bad BAD
> thing to do.
>
> Michael Kjörling
>
> On Nov 13 2001 17:53 -0500, Kevin Darcy wrote:
>
> > > No, it's not currently possible to alias an entire domain.  There's a new
> > > DNS record type that's intended to support it, but it's not widely
> > > implemented yet.
> >
> > Hmmm... Are you *sure* it's not possible? If the OP doesn't care about subdomains
> > -- this wasn't clear from the original post -- all it would take is a CNAME in the
> > .biz zone file. I know that the traditional gTLD's -- .com, .net and .org -- don't
> > accept requests for CNAMEs, but since .biz is fairly new, maybe they have
> > different policies...
> >
> >
> > - Kevin
>
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