From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 24 10: 9:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from java2.dpcsys.com (java2.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 953FF37B40D for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 10:09:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by java2.dpcsys.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f7OH8ZA41941; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 10:08:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 10:08:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Tony Landells Cc: default , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS CNAME question In-Reply-To: <200108240603.QAA23369@tungsten.austclear.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Aug 24, Tony Landells wrote: > If what you want is to have all the same entries for blah.com and > domain.ws, then if you construct the zone file properly you can > just point both zones at the same file in named.conf: > > zone "domain.ws" { > type master; > file "domain.ws"; > }; > > zone "blah.com" { > type master; > file "domain.ws"; # blah.com is a mirror of domain.ws > }; Just to add a little to Tony's explanation, make sure that you use the @ short cut in your zone file when using the same file for multiple domains. For your slave name servers, use separate backup files for each domain, don't share them as above. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message