CNAME and other data -vs- could not find NS and/or SOA records

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c9og21$esn$1 at sf1.isc.org>, phil-news-nospam at ipal.net wrote:

> On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 17:57:34 -0400 Barry Margolin <barmar at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> | I think it's pretty obvious what he's trying to accomplish -- it's an 
> | extremely common situation.  His web site has a dynamically assigned 
> | address, and he wants users to be able to access it as either 
> | www.<domain> or just <domain>.  He uses a domain like dyndns.org to 
> | provide a static name that always maps to the address, but he doesn't 
> | want end users to have to use that name.
> 
> This is about what I am trying to do, except that it involves things other
> than HTTP URLs.
> 
> 
> | For the www name, he can use an alias:
> | 
> | www CNAME whatever.dyndns.org.
> | 
> | but there's no similar solution for the bare domain.
> 
> Not even DNAME?  It has been suggested by two people.  If the zone will
> load with DNAME at the root of the zone (it won't need to be anywhere
> else), that's past the first hurdle.

I'm not sure.  DNAME causes the entire domain to be aliased to another 
domain.  So if you have:

mydomain.com. DNAME me.dyndns.org.

and you also want www.mydomain.com to work, you'll need to have a 
www.me.dyndns.org entry, and so on for any other names you want to have 
in the domain.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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