From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Feb 1 05:13:48 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA18753 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 05:13:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.webnology.com (mercury.webnology.com [209.155.51.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA18747 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 05:13:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jooji@webnology.com) Received: from localhost (jooji@localhost) by mercury.webnology.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id HAA31458; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:13:54 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:13:53 -0600 (CST) From: "Jasper O'Malley" To: John Saunders cc: phil grainger , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help wanted! In-Reply-To: <19990201113502.2584.qmail@nhj.nlc.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 1 Feb 1999, John Saunders wrote: > It's also a good idea to create a bunch of CNAMES (aliases) in the DNS > so it looks like you have 1 service per host, then direct the service > to the host it is on. This lets you move things around without disturbing > users. e.g. > ns1.domain.com.au primary name server > ns2.domain.com.au secondary name server Let me just point out that using a CNAME for a name server address is a no-no. Only one DNS resource record type can refer to a CNAME in its data field, and that's a CNAME itself. The same deal applies to MX records (can't point to a CNAME), so mail.domain.com.au probably shouldn't be a CNAME, either. Use redundant A records, instead. With that caveat, I wholeheartedly agree with John's suggestion. Cheers, Mick The Reverend Jasper P. O'Malley dotdot:jooji@webnology.com Systems Administrator ringring:asktheadmiral Webnology, LLC woowoo:http://www.webnology.com/~jooji To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message