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From: bmk@dtr.com (Brant Katkansky)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: DNS question
Date: 9 Jan 1996 20:28:11 -0800
Organization: A private UN*X site in Portland, Oregon, USA
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Message-ID: <4cvf8r$2g3@everest.dtr.com>
References: <4cqos5$8k7@news.ccs-online.com>
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In article <4cqos5$8k7@news.ccs-online.com>,
Tim Berdahl <berdahl@news.ccs-online.com> wrote:
>I've got a wierd error with my DNS.  I want my domainname (ccs-online.com) to
>map to one of the hosts (ccs.ccs-online.com).  I did this by adding the line:
>                IN      CNAME   ccs.ccs-online.com.
>as the first line after:
>$ORIGIN ccs-online.com.
>
>This works, but it produces an error when named starts:
>Jan  2 12:35:01 news named[17893]: ccs-online.com has CNAME and other data (ille

Use an A record instead.  You can't use a CNAME to define a second-level
domain.

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