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rankar

rankar

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Can someone help with the proper way to write out a cname in dns?

Thanks,
R.G.
 
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Hi,

You can do it with fully qualified names...

smtp.mydomain.com. IN CNAME mail.mydomain.com.
pop3.mydomain.com. IN CNAME mail.mydomain.com
mail.mydomain.com. IN A 172.16.16.1

Or (without the period at the end) as being within the domain on the SOA record...

smtp IN CNAME mail
pop3 IN CNAME mail
mail IN A 172.16.16.1

If you're running bind 9 you can use the new 'DNAME' record to alias a whole domain :

new.mydomain.com. IN DNAME old.mydomain.com.

Hope this helps

 
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