> On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 02:35:17PM -0600, Mark Collette wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > 118 PTR hyperbyte.ab.ca.
> > 118 PTR ns.hyperbyte.ab.ca.
> > 118 PTR www.hyperbyte.ab.ca.
> > 118 PTR ftp.hyperbyte.ab.ca.
> > 118 PTR othello.hyperbyte.ab.ca.
>
> Ugh. Assuming the last one maps to the machines real name, keep that and
> ditch the rest. Then make {,ns,www,ftp}.h.a.c CNAMEs for othello in the fwd
> zone file. I suspect a glance through the BIND documentation and the RFCs
> might be instructive.
I read the DNS Howto and DNS Docs that kernelnotes.org links to, and they
said not to use CNAMEs, and alluded to some long running arguement. Before
reading them I was using CNAMEs. Hmmm... your way does sound much simpler.
Mark
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