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From: "Raymundo M. Vega" <RaymundoVega@home.com>
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To: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net>
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Subject: Re: Simple DNS Question(Kinda :) )
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Read the RFC 19212, it is guide to avoid mistakes configuring
a DNS.

raymundo



"Jonathan E. Lyons" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>         I'm trying to put the finishing touches on our new name servers, but I've
> run into a small problem. I'm trying to get the domain
> bswift.com(www.bswift.com works correctly, just bswift.com doesn't) to
> point to cluster.bswift.com without using the IP address. We have a lot of
> domains, and we are in the process of changing ISP's so I'd like to be able
> to just change the address of cluster.bswift.com and not have to edit all
> domain files. My problem is that the I'tried;
> 
>         IN      CNAME    cluster.bswift.com
> 
> (after the cluster.bswift.com record) and get an error and many other ways,
> but the only way I can get this to work is with what I have below, with;
> 
> bswift.com      IN      CNAME   cluster.bswift.com.
> 
> But I get bswift.com.bswift.com, is this an error I can live with??? Or is
> there a better way of doing this?....
> 
> > bswift.com
> Server:  phc-40.chi.platinumhealth.com
> Address:  209.119.45.40
> 
> Name:    cluster.bswift.com
> Address:  209.119.45.57
> Aliases:  bswift.com.bswift.com
> 
> Any suggestions???   Thanks....
> 
> $TTL 60
> @               IN      SOA     bswift.com. root.ns3.bswift.com.  (
>                                 2000070638      ;Serial
>                                 7200            ;Refresh
>                                 1200            ;Retry
>                                 604800          ;Expire
>                                 60 )            ;time to live
> 
>                 IN      NS      ns3.bswift.com.
>                 IN      NS      ns1.bswift.com.
>                 IN      MX      5  mail.bswift.com.
> 
> ns3             IN      A       64.16.214.140
> ns1             IN      A       209.119.45.40
> cluster         IN      A       209.119.45.57
> localhost       IN      A       127.0.0.1
> 
> bswift.com      IN      CNAME   cluster.bswift.com.
> www             IN      CNAME   cluster.bswift.com.
> 
> Jonathan E. Lyons
> parrothd@midwest.net
> ICQ # 14226912
> A+, MCSE, CCNA, FreeBSD!
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