>>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 3:04 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert J Brenneman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > Doesn't this second entry conflict with the other CNAME entry? Does this > mean you have to have two DNS servers to implement it this way?
In the general case you only do this if you want different systems to interpret the CNAME differently, so yes. > It seems like it would be ok to direct traffic to > vm1foo01-his0.guest.com even when the host thinks of itself as > vm1foo01, but other than confusion > are there any dragons there? Not really. What we used it for mainly was to separate the system management interface from the backup interface, from the interface(s) serving the business purpose of the server. So, we would do "ssh hostname-m" "ssh hostname-drac," etc. You're not really referring to a system by a "different hostname" because the only thing that is going on is (DNS) name resolution, pointing you to the proper NIC. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
