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[Bryan Irvine]

On 12/7/06, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 15:39 -0800, Bryan Irvine wrote:
> > > Because "kingcountyjournal.com" is the name of a domain, you can't use
> > > it as the name of an alias (CNAME).
> >
> > ahhhhh, now I get it.  Thanks for the cluestick. :-)
>
> It's more general than I made it sound.
>
> If you have already used ANY name, you can't also have it as an alias.
> That's why another correspondent was talking about things "on the left".
> If a name appears on the left side of any record, as represented in a
> zone file, then you can't also use that name as an alias.


So, lemme see if I got this right now.  Since kingcountyjournal.com is
the name of the zone, I can't use that as an alias for something else.