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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 08:49:12 +0000
From: Alan Clegg <abc@bsdi.com>
To: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>
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Out of the ether, Evren Yurtesen spewed forth the following bitstream:
> I want to use CNAME for pointing a top level domain to a machine for
> example I want to point xyz.com to abc.def.com machine
> I have
> 
> $origin	xyz.com.
> 	IN	CNAME	abc.def.com.

Try:

$ORIGIN		xyz.com.
@	IN	CNAME	abc.def.com.

But, having said that, I doubt it will work since you will also have
'additional information' (ns, mx, etc) for xyz.com that won't work with
the CNAME.

I'd recommend just adding an "A" record:

$ORIGIN		xyz.com.
@	IN	A	ip.address.of.abc.def.com.

AlanC


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