-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I use CNAMEs all the time. This is really handy as I have a few dyndns accounts, and my host.mydomain.tld is merely a CNAME for for the dyndns. The trick to cname records is that they must end with a period. So an example:
myalias IN CNAME somehost.somedomain.tld. Notice the trailing . Hth, Shawn wrote: > Thanks for the info. My subdomain list is getting kinda long, and they > all point tot he same IP (didn't want to mess with CNAME records, which > I've only had partial luck with, so they are all A records...) > > That entry would allow me to create subdomains on the fly without > worrying about the DNS. You're right though, if you want a particular > name to point to a different box, you might have problems, or need to > handle the redirection differently. > > Shawn > > Jon wrote: >> Shawn wrote: >> >>> hmmm... I'd like to know how you got the wildcard thing working - would >>> make my life a little easier. :) >> As per my last post on the subject, it turns out that I am utterly wrong >> and everyone else is right. I do, in fact, have a wildcard DNS record >> that I set up a long time ago and then promptly forgot about. >> >> As for setting it up, it's silly easy, really. I have a Zone Edit record >> that points *.linuxworldnet.com to my main IP. >> >> I imagine it might get a little more complicated if you wanted to have >> separate machines on your domain doing different things (as in, if >> ftp.yourdomain.com was actually supposed to point to a different box). >> But for my purposes, this seems to be working fine. >> >> Back under my rock... >> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFF3QMwRXgH3rKGfMRAl2lAKCdkAjjX3dtQ+cxfg8oPyz2pKdcVwCgq2IZ QeTJ3YCfUogfbfyzfLT/ZJo= =jWUD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
