Search Again: Re: name server aliases From: Global Homes Webmaster Date: Wednesday, September 6, 2000 Time: 5:09:38 pm On 09/06/00 at 18:48, Mia's Virtual Post Office wrote: > Is it possible to alias or us a cname for a ns record? I have a customer > that would like to create the following: > > ns.theirserver.com CNAME jer.mia.net > ns2.theirserver.com CNAME ns2.mia.net > > Is this possible? According to DNS & BIND, CNAMEs should not be used in the data portion of a record, so using the above CNAMEs along with theirserver.com NS ns.theirserver.com theirserver.com NS ns2.theirserver.com would be a Bad Thing. In fact DNS&B uses an NS record example just like this to illustrate the point. Any reason you wouldn't want to use A records instead? Christopher Bort

Messages In This Thread: name server aliases by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Sep 6, 2000 at 4:49:07 pm Re: name server aliases by Aaron Lynch on Sep 6, 2000 at 5:04:46 pm Re: name server aliases by Global Homes Webmaster on Sep 6, 2000 at 5:09:38 pm Re: name server aliases by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Sep 6, 2000 at 5:18:30 pm Re: name server aliases by Men & Mice Support on Sep 6, 2000 at 5:22:30 pm Re: name server aliases by Global Homes Webmaster on Sep 6, 2000 at 5:29:25 pm Re: name server aliases by Men & Mice Support on Sep 6, 2000 at 5:39:17 pm Re: name server aliases by Global Homes Webmaster on Sep 6, 2000 at 5:46:28 pm Re: name server aliases by Aaron Lynch on Sep 6, 2000 at 5:57:26 pm Re: name server aliases by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Sep 6, 2000 at 6:03:30 pm Re: name server aliases by Aaron Lynch on Sep 6, 2000 at 6:31:50 pm