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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: BIND and CNAME's Date: 30 May 1997 14:12:33 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5mmn8h$53p@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970528170137.13435A-100000@club-web.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:3452 Charlie ROOT <root@club-web.com> wrote: > db.mydomain2: > SOA stuff > NS stuff > MX stuff > mydomain2.com. IN CNAME mydomain.com. > May 28 17:12:14 mydomain2.com. named[1234]: mydomain2.com. has CNAME and > other data (illegal) As you can see, you can't do it. An entry that has a CNAME can't have anything else. You can however stuff an A record there (which is allowed to be identical to another A record, like the one for mydomain.com). -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j