Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 01:49:54 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@gorean.org> To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: are CNAMES good enough? Message-ID: <376B59B2.6889B9A0@gorean.org> References: <19990606213153.EUUI8654004.mta1-rme@wocker>
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Dan Langille wrote: > > Most of you should know about the great mirror database run by Gavin Cameron at > http://www.itworks.com.au/~gavin/FBSDsites.php3 > > Well, I'm just making some changes to nz.freebsd.org and I'm doing some testing of the changes. But > I'm getting strange stuff. It appears that if I use CNAMEs, nslookup doesn't see the names. Any > ideas? I have to admit to being completely mystified as to what you are trying to accomplish here. However, in general you should avoid the use of CNAME's altogether. That's one of those tools that always seems that it will make life easier but in practice (with certain exceptions) rarely actually does. Also, you can never point the right hand side of a MX or NS record at a CNAME. It must always point to a hostname that resolves directly to an A record. HTH, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** Nominated for quote of the year is the statement made by Representative Dick Armey (Texas), who when asked if he were in the President's place, would he resign, responded: "If I were in the President's place I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs. Armey standing over me saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the messagehelp
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