CNAME setup

[Vinny Abello]

At 07:41 PM 8/27/2005, Jim Pazarena wrote:
>I have tried to set a virtual domain like:
>
>;
>;  authoritative data for lifeboatscanada.com
>;
>
>$INCLUDE qcislands.soa
>
>$ORIGIN lifeboatscanada.com.
>
>lifeboatscanada.com.  IN A     64.69.87.111
>www                   IN A     64.69.87.111
>ftp                   IN A     64.69.87.111
>
>and this seems to works OK, but when I try to "CNAME" these entries, like:
>
>
>lifeboatscanada.com.  IN CNAME www.qcislands.net

Don't make the domain name itself a CNAME. It's not allowed.

>www                   IN CNAME www.qcislands.net
>ftp                   IN CNAME www.qcislands.net

Terminate your CNAME records with a period at the end also, unless 
you want it to resolve to www.qcislands.net.lifeboatscanada.com.


>doesn't work... the master re-load complains "CNAME and other data"
>
>am I doing something wrong, or is there another way to do this?
>
>TIA
>Jim


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