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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: BIND and CNAME's
Date: 30 May 1997 14:12:33 GMT
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Charlie ROOT <root@club-web.com> wrote:

> db.mydomain2:
> SOA stuff
> NS stuff
> MX stuff
> mydomain2.com.	IN CNAME	mydomain.com.

> May 28 17:12:14 mydomain2.com. named[1234]: mydomain2.com. has CNAME and
> other data (illegal)

As you can see, you can't do it.  An entry that has a CNAME can't have
anything else.  You can however stuff an A record there (which is
allowed to be identical to another A record, like the one for
mydomain.com).

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j