From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 20 1:59:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0756637BB93 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 01:59:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:59:16 +0100 Received: from localhost (cmjg@localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA29329; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:59:15 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:59:15 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant To: "Jonathan E. Lyons" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple DNS Question(Kinda :) ) In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20000719130239.008b7d20@midwest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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