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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 16:22:54 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mike <flaq@synwork.com>
To: John Clark <jc@netview.net>
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Subject: Re: Virtual Name Servers
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On Tue, 30 Jul 1996, John Clark wrote:

> Hello,
>  
> I was looking for someone who had in depth knowledge of the named (name
> daemon) in FreeBSD.  In particular, I was trying to setup an alias for my
> name server.  The reason is to look like 2 different name servers are
> running on 2 different domains.  For example:
> 
>   ns.company-a.com      1.1.1.1
>   ns.company-b.com      2.2.2.2
> 
> Both would actually be ns.company-a.com (1.1.1.1), but company-b would look
> like they were running their own name server.  I tell you that named code is
> so poor (patched), I can't figure what the heck is going on.  I am surprised
> it works at all!
> 
> As Internet users become more sophisticated, they will run whois queries to
> see who is really running their own server -- I would like to make it
> virtually impossible to detect that my clients do not actually run their own
> server.
> 

If you already have company-a setup in your DNS, just add a CNAME entry in
the hosts file for that domain such as:

		IN	NS	ns1.synwork.com.
		IN	NS	ns1.phoenix.net.
		IN	MX	10 synwork.com.
ns1		IN	CNAME	synwork.com.
synwork.com.	IN	A	199.3.234.4
synwork.com.    IN      A       204.120.255.17
ns2		IN	A	204.120.255.18

If you need more help, let me know.

Mike

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