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Date:      Fri, 14 Aug 1998 07:27:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, romank@graphnet.com
Subject:   Re: second machine name
Message-ID:  <199808141427.HAA02418@pau-amma.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <35D4421F.65182BD2@graphnet.com>

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>Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 09:56:47 -0400
>From: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>

>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
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David Wolfskill		UNIX System Administrator
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