Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:14:23 -0500 From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>, Damon Hammis <squirrel@hammis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Simple DNS Question(Kinda :) ) Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20000719141423.00a7f640@midwest.net> In-Reply-To: <200007191841.e6JIfgU07707@ptavv.es.net> References: <Your message of "Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:27:24 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007191426320.82418-100000@markl.com>
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In a word..... Bummer........ :( Thanks for the help... At 11:41 AM 7/19/00 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:27:24 -0400 (EDT) >> From: Damon Hammis <squirrel@hammis.com> >> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> >> Change this: >> >> > bswift.com IN CNAME cluster.bswift.com. >> >> to this: >> >> bswift.com. IN CNAME cluster.bswift.com. > >No, I'm afraid not. As we saw, bswift.com is the domain, so this would >lead to an illegal case where you have a CNAME and some other RR. > >The normal way to do this is > > IN A [address of cluster.bswift.com] > >There is nothing wrong with multiple A records, but CNAME is processed >differently from all other RRs and doing what you are trying will >simply not work correctly. > Jonathan E. Lyons parrothd@midwest.net ICQ # 14226912 A+, MCSE, CCNA, FreeBSD! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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