cname entire domain (or dname?)

[btaber]

I need to forward an entire domain like here.com to there.com so if I lookup here.com I get there.com or if I look up

http://www.here.com

I get

http://www.there.com

I can already do the

http://www ones

but I need the root name to forward also.. what would the hosts file look like? I am using Bind 9.2.1 on linux

 

[ChrisAC]

here.com IN CNAME there.com

Chris

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[GlenJohnson]

Maybe this will help you understand it.

http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch8/cname.html

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[btaber]

I had tried that and I had read that document already. BIND won't load the zone saying "CNAME and other data" or something like that. What you said chris was the first thing I did, looks like it should work. As for that doc, it only really talks about standard cnames like www, but not the entire domain... I tried DNAME and that forwarded the entire zone to the other one, except for the main name... it doesen't make sense...

 

[ChrisAC]

A CNAME should work as long as your zone files are in order. Seeing the two zone files and the exact error messages might help.

I might set this up myself on my server and see what happens.

Chris.

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[btaber]

The error I get is:

dns_master_load: /var/named/here.com.hosts:10: here.com: CNAME and other data
zone here.com/IN: loading master file /var/named/here.com.hosts: CNAME and other data


The zone looks like:
$ttl 38400
here.com. IN SOA ns1.there.com. dns.there.com. (
1113785646
300
3600
604800
38400 )
@ IN NS ns1.there.com.
@ IN NS ns2.there.com.
here.com. IN CNAME there.com.

http://www.here.com.

IN CNAME

http://www.there.com.

If I didn't try it, I would have looked at that and said "yea, that will work", but...

 

[ChrisAC]

Yeah, I'm getting the same thing.

May 13 21:08:28 uranium named[670]: dns_master_load: /var/named/db.here.com:9: here.com: CNAME and other data
May 13 21:08:28 uranium named[670]: zone here.com/IN: loading master file /var/named/db.here.com: CNAME and other data

Well, if you know what IP address there.com resolves to, why not just put an A record in for here.com to the same IP address?

Chris.

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[ChrisAC]

Right, you can't do this with a CNAME as I suggested as there.com as other records associated with it (NS and SOA) so you can't use it to the right of a CNAME. You should just use an A record for here.com.

Chris.

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[btaber]

That is what I ended up doing... The problem is I have 50 domains to do that to.... oh well...

 

[ChrisAC]

Better get started then ;-)

Chris.

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[Serbtastic]

You could always script it.