[Resolved] DNS aliases

piersk

Wow! I think this is the first time I've posted here! :eek:

Anyway, I'm having a few problems with Debian 3.

Attached to this msg is the record file. I want to add some aliases so that if I type in "ping me.diablog.co.uk" it will see that name as an alias of rover.diablog.co.uk

Anyone got any ideas?

dalecosp

What's the problem exactly? Your file looks pretty good. However, you don't need a trailing dot on the dot-quad IP addresses. Also, you don't have an A record for rover --- that might be an issue.

Here's one of mine, fooed up, of course:

$ttl 38400
foo.com.     IN      SOA     ns2.foo.com. postmaster.foo.com. (
                        2003100901
                        7200
                        3600
                        604800
                        38400 )
foo.com.     IN      NS      ns2.foo.com.
foo.com.     IN      NS      ns1.foo.com.
[url]www.foo.com.[/url] IN      A       166.176.92.128
mail.foo.com.        IN      A       166.176.92.128
foo.com.     IN      A       166.176.92.128
ns1.foo.com. IN      A       166.176.92.128
ns2.foo.com. IN     A        166.176.92.128

Now, I've not used CNAMES ... various authorities seems to either say "Don't use too many CNAMES" or they say "Don't use too many glue records" ... and I've not decided who's correct.

I have found a fairly helpful tool at www.dnsreport.com.

HTH,

piersk

I'd actually forgotten that I'd posted this.

What I'd done is added my server as an name server, but not actually as a host, so when I tried to add aliases, it wasn't seeing the server to start with.

Ta anyway Dale.