[olug] DNS: anyone using DNAME?

[David Walker]

If you are using the same bind server for both domains and nothing if
your config interferes, you can use the same zone file for both domains.
I often do this with my alias domains.

I don't know if this will work if you have your domains configured to be
updateable, I have not tried it.

http://www.simpledns.com/kb.aspx?kbid=1176 aims to explain why this is
an issue.

Jay Hannah wrote:
> Boo!!
>
> We have want to forward our domain foo.com over to bar.com. But when we 
> do this:
>
> @         IN    CNAME     bar.com.
> *         IN    CNAME     bar.com.
>
> We get these errors:
>
> Feb 12 15:51:54 royal named[911]: dns_master_load: 
> master/external/foo.com:15: foo.com: CNAME and other data
> Feb 12 15:51:54 royal named[911]: zone foo.com/IN/external: loading 
> master file master/external/foo.com: CNAME and other data
>
> In IRC (freenode #dns) someone suggested DNAME, but a quick Google 
> showed dragons there...?
>
> Anyone using DNAME?
>
> Someone else with the exact same problem:
> http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1059098&page=8
>
> And we settled on the icky exact same solution he did:
> @         IN    A         12.31.31.13
> *         IN    CNAME     bar.com.
>
> Which sucks because if bar.com moves from 12.31.31.13 to somewhere else 
> foo.com is broken!
>
> Boo!!
>
> j
>
>
> # /usr/sbin/named -v
> BIND 9.3.4
>
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