Search Again: Re: name server aliases From: Aaron Lynch Date: Wednesday, September 6, 2000 Time: 5:57:26 pm Your honor: on 9/6/00 5:19 PM, Men & Mice Support at cbuxton@menandmice.com confessed: > At 5:00 PM -0700 9/6/00, Aaron Lynch wrote: >> Your honor: on 9/6/00 4:48 PM, Mia's Virtual Post Office at list@mia.net >> confessed: >> >>> 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.thierserver.com CNAME jer.mia.net >>> ns2.theirserver.com CNAME ns2.mia.net >>> >>> Is this possible? >>> >>> thanx >>> >>> jer >>> www.hostdrive.com >>> Colocate Your G4 Cube at cubelocation.com >>> >>> NetZero = What this company will "NET" --- "ZERO" >>> >>> Hey, I bought my Apple Stock @ $18, WHO'S LAUGHING NOW!!! >>> >>> >> >> You could make an A record too. the problem though, is that network >> solutions won't let you have ns.theirserver.com and nsyourserver.com with >> the same IP, and QDNS won't work right with a secondary IP. :( > > Furthermore, an NS record that refers to an alias is strictly against > the rules. An alias is any name that has a CNAME record. > > For all of the reasons stated above, and most importantly for the > restriction imposed by NetSol, for your customer to be able to use > their own domain in the names of the authoritative name servers, > they'll need a couple of IP addresses of their own. > ____________________________________________________________________ > Chris Buxton Men & Mice > cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy! > They'll need a couple of MACHINES of their own, unless something's changed and QDNS now works on secondary ips ???????? -- Aaron Lynch System Administrator NineWire Digital Solutions

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