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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 13:56:43 -0700
From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>
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To: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>
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Subject: Re: named question
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Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> 
> I want to use CNAME for pointing a top level domain to a machine for
> example I want to point xyz.com to abc.def.com machine
> I have
> 
> $origin xyz.com.
>         IN      CNAME   abc.def.com.
> 
> in my conf files but it just doesnt work. I would like to knwo why?

	Because it just doesn't work that way. If you're going to be doing DNS you
really need to get the O'Reilly book. There is no substitute for knowledge
in this area. 

Good luck,

Doug


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