In article <gld0if$3c...@sf1.isc.org>, John Bond <john.r.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All, > > Sorry for the bad subject but i wasn't really sure how i could best > describe my circumstances. I would like to ask anyone out there if > something im proposing to implment is incorrect or just plain stupid. > Ok so the situation is that we have one set of developers who like to > call there boxes after the names of various moons and we have a > services team who insist all boxes follow a strict naming convention. > I therefore told the devs we would simply set up CNAME's tor them. > however they are still not happy. the problem they have now is that > our service desk phone them and say we are having a problem with > bob-www-sol-l01 and the devs have now idea what they are talking > about. In an effort to resolve this i would like a way so that no > mater which name you get you can get the other name. > > My idea was to create records like the following > > zone for .local > > bob-www-sol-l01 IN A 1.1.1.1 > metis IN CNAME bob-www-sol-l01 > > zone for 1.1.1 > > 1 IN CNAME metis.local. > > so if you look up metis you would see that it was a CNAME to > bob-www-sol-l01. And if you looked up bob-www-sol-l01 then the IP > address it you would get a CNAME entry to metis which also points to > bob-www-sol-l01. Setting things up like this would allow me to give > something which goes a small way to makeing everyone happy. I have > tested it and it seems to work; however it just looks wrong to me. > And im sure ill have problems if any of these are mail servers. Does > anyone have any comments, pointers or advice. anything would be > appreciated and i do still have the option of telling them its not > possible so if it is a bad idea please let me know. Why don't you just use normal reverse DNS: zone for 1.1.1.in-addr.arpa 1 IN PTR metis.local. IN PTR bob-www-sol-l01.local. -- Barry Margolin, bar...@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group *** _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
