Bill Cole wrote: >Why not just change those CNAME's to A's???
Because I was not aware that I am allowed to have multiple A records for the same IP addr. I thought I must use CNAMEs if I wanted to have multiple names reference the same IP addr. >FWIW, a lot of people (including me) believe that CNAME's should be >used in exactly two situations: classless in-addr.arpa delegation and >the migration of services from one machine to another. Anything else >should just use real names with A records. Hmm, yes. Even the DNS HOWTOs I did read were not making clear what CNAMEs were for. What you say makes sense to me now. Thanks also to the others who sent me mail on this. I got it all figured out now, and I also have a mail backup working, provided by another reader of this list (I'll provide NS backup for him in exchange). BTW, here's a tip in case someone is running NonSequitur on OS 9 and wants to migrate to OS X with BIND: I installed Quick DNS 4 on my server, as a (free) Trial version, which runs for a few weeks. QDNS has an "import" feature which allowed me to import NonSequitur's zone files and get everything in place automatically for BIND 8. That way, I had not to figure out what goes where to get it all working. Now, that I've got it all converted, I can uninstall QuickDNS again and keep on using the converted files for BIND :) The only feature I'll lose once Q DNS gets uninstalled is the extended logging feature it provides. But I can live with that. Saves me $350 after all. I'll have to manually edit the zones from then on, of course, but that's what I had done all the time with NonSequitur, too. Only that I did not know how to get them converted to be used with BIND. Hurray for the Q DNS Trial version! (I do not want to appear to cheap, but the price of Q DNS is just too much for me who only runs SIMS and DNS on my private, home use only, server. If it were available without the multi-user features and other things I might not need, for about $100, I'd be happy to purchase it, though). Thomas -- Thomas Tempelmann, http://www.tempel.org/rb/ ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
