Creating a CNAME to another domain.

[Danny Mayer]

Kevin Darcy wrote:
> Danny Mayer wrote:
>> Kevin Darcy wrote:
>>  
>>> Ezra Taylor wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Hello All:
>>>>                How can I create a CNAME that points to another
>>>> domain.  Example below.  Is the below example possible?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> stars.mydomain.com <http://stars.mydomain.com>     IN    CNAME    
>>>> stars.otherdomain.com <http://stars.otherdomain.com>.
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> If stars.mydomain.com is just an ordinary name in the mydomain.com zone,
>>> then there is no problem with what you show above (except,
>>> syntactically, you need the trailing dot, as was already pointed out).
>>>
>>> If, on the other hand, stars.mydomain.com is a *zone*, then it's not
>>> possible, because in that case there would be "apex" records (records
>>> whose name is the same as that of the zone); at a minimum, an SOA and at
>>> least 2 NS records, which are required for each and every zone. When a
>>> particular name owns a CNAME record, it cannot also own SOA or NS
>>> records.
>>>     
>>
>> Not true. For a Domain alias use a DNAME:
>>
>> mydomain.com.    IN     DNAME    otherdomain.com.
>>   
> Bearing in mind that the OP asked specifically about creation of CNAMEs,
> which part is "not true"?

Aliasing domain names.

Danny