AW: Creating a CNAME to another domain.

[Melbinger Christian]

wait, wait, thats not true (or at least, I find your post rather confusing)

a DNAME maps whole domains, not just single records. you can map mydomain.com to otherdomain.com. this would act like, say dumping the otherdomain zonefile into the mydomain file.

if you want to make a cname for mydomain.com, I just read on the net that you'll have to set up a non-authorative domain .com and add the cname there... hm... gonna try this out at home, but that solution sounds as if it could work...


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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org] Im Auftrag von Danny Mayer
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. Juli 2009 05:39
An: Kevin Darcy
Cc: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
Betreff: Re: Creating a CNAME to another domain.

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.

Danny


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