Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:01:27 -0800 From: james@blacksun.reef.com (James Buszard-Welcher) To: verdell@novalink.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Name Server Q Message-ID: <9611211601.ZM6340@blacksun.reef.com> In-Reply-To: Verdell hicks <verdell@novalink.com> "Name Server Q" (Nov 21, 3:26pm) References: <3294DE17.252A@novalink.com>
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Um... CNAME means "Cannonical Name". Which is to say that 'news' is an alias for a machine that is really called 'somename'. There is only ONE cannonical name for a given IP address. You need a PTR lookup to return multiple hostnames? Why? Are you trying to do some kind of reverse-round-robin or something? On Nov 21, 3:26pm, Verdell hicks wrote: > Subject: Name Server Q > Using Named I have CNAME entries which map to an actual entry, ie > > somename A 192.168.12.234 > news CNAME loki > > So at this point in time somename.novalink.com is 192.168.12.234 and > news.novalink.com is an alias that points to somename.novalink.com. > If you nslookup either name it hits back with the correct IP address. > Problem, How do you get it to respond with both names if you nslookup > the IP address. Currently it only comes back with the actual machines > name and no alias. This is a problem beacause our reverse lookup file > can have only one reverse entry in per ip number. So it reads like this > > 234 IN PTR somename.novalink.com. > > If i put in > > 234 IN PTR somename.novalink.com. > 234 IN PTR news.novalink.com. > > it only responds with the first entry. > > so when you look up 192.168.12.234 it comes back with > somename.novalink.com, but I need it to come back with both > somename.novalink.com and news.novalink.com. Any help would be > appreciated. All of of our CNAME entries are having this problem in > that only name maps to the ip the ip maps only to the real machine name. > > Verdell Hicks > Systems Administration > Novalink USA > verdell@novalink.com >-- End of excerpt from Verdell hicks -- James Buszard-Welcher | ph. (847) 729-8600 | "There is water at the bottom Silicon Reef, Inc. | FAX (847) 729-1560 | of the ocean" - David Byrne
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