At 02:23 PM 6/4/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >We are a reseller for domains and we have a client that would like >their domain to have a cname record on their DNS for their domain. > >I am unable to locate this?
It sounds to me as though you are asking about creating a record like this: example.com. IN CNAME foo.example.com. I don't know anything about the OpenSRS interface, but it probably *shouldn't* let you create a record like that in the example.com zone. Strictly speaking, it's not invalid, but if you have a CNAME record like the above, then you wouldn't be able to have any other records for example.com, and it seems unlikely that's what you want. If you're trying, for example, to point HTTP queries like http://example.com/ at the same server as for http://www.example.com/ then you need to use an A record to point them at the same IP(s) and then configure the HTTP server to take care of the redirection as appropriate. See RFC 1034 for more info, in particular: >A CNAME RR identifies its owner name as an alias, and specifies the >corresponding canonical name in the RDATA section of the RR. If a >CNAME RR is present at a node, no other data should be present; this >ensures that the data for a canonical name and its aliases cannot be >different. This rule also insures that a cached CNAME can be used >without checking with an authoritative server for other RR types. _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
