Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 09:29:02 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: are CNAMES good enough? Message-ID: <19990606213153.EUUI8654004.mta1-rme@wocker>
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Most of you should know about the great mirror database run by Gavin Cameron at http://www.itworks.com.au/~gavin/FBSDsites.php3 Well, I'm just making some changes to nz.freebsd.org and I'm doing some testing of the changes. But I'm getting strange stuff. It appears that if I use CNAMEs, nslookup doesn't see the names. Any ideas? ash-2.02$ nslookup Default Server: localhost.antisocial.net Address: 127.0.0.1 > set q=any > nz.freebsd.org Server: localhost.antisocial.net Address: 127.0.0.1 Non-authoritative answer: nz.freebsd.org nameserver = ns.freebsddiary.cx Authoritative answers can be found from: nz.freebsd.org nameserver = ns.freebsddiary.cx ns.freebsddiary.cx internet address = 210.55.152.36 > server ns.freebsddiary.cx Default Server: ns.freebsddiary.cx Address: 210.55.152.36 > ls nz.freebsd.org [ns.freebsddiary.cx] $ORIGIN nz.freebsd.org. @ 1H IN A 210.55.152.36 fred 1H IN A 210.55.152.36 ns 1H IN A 210.55.152.36 Yet if I type in: > ftp2.nz.freebsd.org Server: ns.freebsddiary.cx Address: 210.55.152.36 ftp2.nz.freebsd.org canonical name = ns.freebsddiary.cx nz.freebsd.org nameserver = ns.freebsddiary.cx nz.freebsd.org nameserver = ns.ghis.net ns.freebsddiary.cx internet address = 210.55.152.36 ns.ghis.net internet address = 209.222.164.7 Yet I have defined CNAMES for ftp, www, and others. I added fred in as a test. If I understand correctly, this is the mechanism which Cameron uses to traverse the DNS trees. I'd rather use CNAMES but if I can't, I can't. -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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