"Mounting" a zone in two locations

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Wed Dec 22 23:57:38 UTC 2004


In article <cqd0cn$1ipb$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Charles Duffy <cduffy at spamcop.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 08:57:01 +1100, Mark Andrews wrote:
> 
> > 	You can use a "foo.B.com. DNAME foo.A.com".  Requires the servers for
> > 	foo.B.com to know how to handle DNAMES (as BIND 9 does). This will may
> > 	everything below foo.B.com to the same prefix under foo.A.com.
> 
> I'll try that; thanks!
> 
> > 	One really needs to ask why you need to add names to foo.B.com at all?
> 
> A is the domain name we've used internally since founding, B is this
> week's new one. In protest of the number of name changes we've had so far
> (and to minimize the impact of any future ones), IT is using our original
> company name for everything that's not customer-facing, and setting up the
> official company name-of-the-hour to mirror the original (actual) site.
> 
> Thus, the stuffier management types and customers can use B, while
> everyone else keeps with A.

I assume that the stuff that's updated dynamically is just your 
internal, non-customer-facing names.  So why do you need to reflect 
these changes in B.com?

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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