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Re: name server aliases

From: Global Homes Webmaster
Date: Wednesday, September 6, 2000
Time: 5:46:28 pm

On 09/06/00 at 19:17, Mia's Virtual Post Office wrote:

> I know that it is not proper in DNS and BIND, however, there are about a
> gazillion things that should not be done, like CNAME chaining, etc.. but
> hell if it works! So I guess what I am trying to do is appease a
> customer that wants to have it look like he has some autonomy here so
> that when someone does a "whois" they see his NameServer, which are
> really ours. So I suppose I could create A records for his name servers,
> but the inverse is not going to be their since these IP's already have
> PTR records for our respective IPs. But I cannot see where a PTR record
> is important where it concerns a DNS server.

Too bad QDNS doesn't like secondary IPs (yet). If it did, you could multihome
separate IPs to your name servers for the client's use. That would keep NetSol
happy and you'd still be able to 'play by the rules.'

Christopher Bort



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