Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:59:15 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple DNS Question(Kinda :) ) Message-ID: <Pine.GHP.4.21.0007200957320.5537-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20000719130239.008b7d20@midwest.net>
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On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, 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. > IN CNAME cluster.bswift.com As has probably been pointed out already, you need "bswift.com." (trailing period) to stop your second problem. As has not been pointed out (as far as I can see), is that BIND won't let you do this because you're NOT allowed to CNAME a domain name if you've also got NS records for it. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Leverage that synergy! Ooh yeah, looking good! Now stretch - and relax. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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