Kevin Darcy wrote: > Ezra Taylor wrote: >> Hello All: >> How can I create a CNAME that points to another >> domain. Example below. Is the below example possible? >> >> >> >> stars.mydomain.com <http://stars.mydomain.com> IN CNAME >> stars.otherdomain.com <http://stars.otherdomain.com>. >> > If stars.mydomain.com is just an ordinary name in the mydomain.com zone, > then there is no problem with what you show above (except, > syntactically, you need the trailing dot, as was already pointed out). > > If, on the other hand, stars.mydomain.com is a *zone*, then it's not > possible, because in that case there would be "apex" records (records > whose name is the same as that of the zone); at a minimum, an SOA and at > least 2 NS records, which are required for each and every zone. When a > particular name owns a CNAME record, it cannot also own SOA or NS records.
Not true. For a Domain alias use a DNAME: mydomain.com. IN DNAME otherdomain.com. Danny -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users