From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 14 07:28:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA02993 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 07:28:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA02987 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 07:28:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id HAA02418; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 07:27:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 07:27:29 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199808141427.HAA02418@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, romank@graphnet.com Subject: Re: second machine name In-Reply-To: <35D4421F.65182BD2@graphnet.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 09:56:47 -0400 >From: Roman Katsnelson >I have a news server which is known to the world (and, more importantly, >our feed) as radius.graphnet.com. I want to keep this, but also have it >accessible by readers as news.graphnet.com >Is this doable? Certainly. >I know I will have to make another DNS entry for the same address, but >is there anything involved on the local level? Alternative DNS approaches include creating an additional A record: $ORIGIN graphnet.com. radius IN A 192.206.112.189 news IN A 192.206.112.189 or you could use a CNAME record: $ORIGIN graphnet.com. radius IN A 192.206.112.189 news IN CNAME radius In either case, there is no change needed for the zone file that contains the "reverse" (PTR) records. If your internal DNS records are maintained separately from your externally-visible ones, the additional record need only be inserted in the internal zone file. Be sure to make the serial number in the SOA record of the affected zone file bigger, and send named a HUP signal. A similar effect is also obtainable via the hosts file, but I tend to prefer DNS, and since you hinted that you use DNS anyway, I'll leave it at that. david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message