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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.



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