well that is what I want to do. Do I need to ?link the domain records somehow? Eric
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Doom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <cf-community@houseoffusion.com> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 8:54 AM Subject: Re: DNS Question - CNAME cannot be added I don't think a single record can contain both A records and CNAME pointers. However, you can enter the A records for the primary domain, and then use CNAME pointers for all the others. I think. I'm *way* not an expert in this. --Ben Eric Dawson wrote: > Tell me where I am wrong. What I would like to do is. > > maindomain.com > Create host records for all the servers/IP > servername A ===> x.x.x.x > servername2 A ===> x.x.x.y > servername3 A ===> x.x.x.z > > www cname servername > cname servername > vpn cname servername2 > mx servername3 > > =============== > allotherdomains.com > > www cname servername > cname servername > vpn cname servername2 > mx servername3 > =============== > > but when I have an MX record created it won't let me create the cname to the > root. "cannot create cname" > > How should I have this configured? Up until now I have been updating host > records for each domain, but it is starting to get tedious - I would like to > maintain only one host record per server w/ aliases whenever that host is > used by another domain. > > Is there a better approach? > > Eric > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:162603 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
