From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 28 03:11:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA06616 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 03:11:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from Zero-Cool.Hades.Org (nobody@d1a16.uk.pi.net [194.73.76.16]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA06602 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 03:11:15 -0800 (PST) From: pumpkin@uk.pi.net Received: from localhost (scot@localhost) by Zero-Cool.Hades.Org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA00378 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 10:59:11 GMT Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 10:59:11 +0000 (GMT) X-Sender: scot@Zero-Cool.Hades.Org To: FreeBSD ISP list Subject: Re: Multiple IP addresse, hostnames on one machine In-Reply-To: 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 Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > [......] > Note that a CNAME record *must* point to an A record, not to another CNAME. > Why not? It works for me: (zone file) Zero-Cool IN A 10.10.10.1 WWW IN CNAME Zero-Cool test IN CNAME www (scot@Zero-Cool) ~ >nslookup test Server: localhost.Hades.Org Address: 127.0.0.1 Name: Zero-Cool.Hades.Org Address: 10.10.10.1 Aliases: test.Hades.Org, www.Hades.Org It seems to resolve OK doesn't it? > 1. The aliased address is part of the same subnet/network as the primary > address. > > In this case, you need to specify a netmask of 0xffffffff (8 f's) and put I've heard of this before... but I can't find anyone who can tell me why the netmask has to be different. Personally I don't specify a netmask for the aliases and it seems to work out OK. Any offers? Cheers.. Scot. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Scot Elliott | Please note that any opinions | | MEng Computing IV. | expressed are mine, and not those | | Imperial College, London | of the department or college. | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | e-mail: s.elliott@ic.ac.uk | IRC nick: PlumbrBoy | | pumpkin@uk.pi.net | "You are everything in my fridge" | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------