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Date:      Mon, 16 Sep 1996 20:25:04 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        M C Wong <mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd.org and cdrom.com DNS 
Message-ID:  <199609170325.UAA08744@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Sep 1996 12:27:32 EST." <199609170227.AA142777254@relay.hp.com> 

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>Hi,
>    Just some simple questions based on the following:
>
>1) nslookup www.freebsd.org
>Non-authoritative answer:
>Name:    freefall.FreeBSD.org
>Address:  204.216.27.18
>Aliases:  www.freebsd.org
>
>2) nslookup freefall.cdrom.com
>Name:    freefall.cdrom.com
>Addresses:  204.216.27.18, 204.216.27.18
>Aliases:  freefall.cdrom.com
>
>3) nslookup 204.216.27.18
>Name:    freefall.FreeBSD.ORG
>Address:  204.216.27.18
>
>4) nslookup www.cdrom.com
>Non-authoritative answer:
>Name:    wcarchive.cdrom.com
>Address:  165.113.58.253
>Aliases:  www.cdrom.com
>
>    Is freebsd.org and cdrom.com the same machine with 2 NICs ?
>Also, in 2) above, why is freefall.cdrom.com a name as well as
>an alias at the same time, and it returns 2 same IP address for
>it too, why is that ?

   It was a configuration error in the cdrom.com zone file which I fixed a
couple of days ago.

>    Is freefall.cdrom.com an alias from freebsd.org or is it
>a proper name record in cdrom.com zone ? How are the above
>configured in actuality ?

   I can't parse this, sorry. freefall.cdrom.com is a CNAME for
freefall.freebsd.org - does that answer your question?

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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