Newbie need help settings aliases

[David Botham]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of marco
> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 4:10 AM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject: Newbie need help settings aliases
> 
> 
> I set up a dns using bind V9.
> Resolution works fine when i try to resolve a name like
> <machine>.<domain>
> but i also need to resolve name like <machine> whithout any domain.

Look at your /etc/resolv.conf file.  Is there a domain statement?

Example:
domain domain.com
name server <ip.of.name.server.>


Dave...



> so i try to configure aliases using CNAME records but when i start
> bind i've got this message in the syslog :
> 
> dns_master_load: /etc/dns/db.<domain>:54: ignoring out-of-zone data
> <machine>
> 
> and resolution of <machine> failed.
> 
> Someone can help me ? What is the good syntax to setup this kind of
> aliases ?
> 
> Thanks,
> JMP.