From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Nov 21 16:37:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA00621 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:37:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from linkou.trace.com.tw (ronald@[192.72.68.166]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA00605 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:36:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ronald@localhost) by linkou.trace.com.tw (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA22730; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 08:36:22 +0800 Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 08:36:22 +0800 (CCT) From: Ronald Wiplinger To: James Buszard-Welcher cc: verdell@novalink.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Name Server Q In-Reply-To: <9611211601.ZM6340@blacksun.reef.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, James Buszard-Welcher wrote: > 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. That is not true! You can have multiple CNAME to one IP, but can only have one IP to lookup one name. Only the named.rev is limited, not the named.hosts. I don't know if it is a schame to name the news server others than "news". So why use an alias name at all? Beside this, if the news server really exist on your site, than it should get anyway a new machine soon, when the traffic starts ;-) However if the question was if you can use other ones news server to say it is yours, than you have the problem. (I saw once an entry in named.hosts like: news CNAME news.server.other_ISP. (trailing dot!!!) Worked perfect! You only find it, if you make a telnet news 119 and saved the small ISP a lot of GB harddisk. BTW, even after they have been bought from a big organization, they still use the other ones news server ;-( I just telnet them).