zone file

zone file

[Igor Gueths]

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Hi all. I'll be configuring Bind9 pretty soon, however I do have one
question. Let's say I defined something like the following in my zonefile.
Note: This is not syntactically correct (its not supposed to be).
NS ns
ns A 192.168.1.1
CNAME www.igorgueths.com. ns

Is this sort of cname possible? I know something like CNAME www ns is,
because assuming ns=ns.igorgueths.com, www would be prepended and
ns.igorgueths.com would be appended. I checked out the dns HOWTO and
syntactically my CNAME looks correct, but virtual domains weren't
mentioned. Thanks!
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re: zone file

[Alex Snow]

You wouldn't define a domain called www.something.com. first you'd 
define something.com and then you'd cname www.something.com to 
something.com

-- 
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back.

RE: zone file

[Whitley CTR Cecil H]

Hi,
The syntax I am familiar with looks like this:
1. assumption this is for zone mydomain.com
2.  assumption upstream soa is correct and points to ns1 as primary
nameserver

ns1 IN NS
ns2 IN NS

ns1 IN A 192.168.1.1
ns2 IN A 192.168.1.2
www IN CNAME ns1 # mydomain.com is implicit
www IN CNAME ns1.mydomain.com. # also valid, same as above
mailer IN CNAME www.hotmail.com. #points mailer.mydomain.com to hotmail

Regards,
Cecil