Aaaaand, we've now gone past the extent of my knowledge.  I think all
the domain records must be on the same box(en).  That's all I know.

--Ben

Eric Dawson wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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