Kevin Darcy wrote: > Danny Mayer wrote: >> Kevin Darcy wrote: >> >>> Ezra Taylor wrote: >>> >>>> Hello All: >>>> How can I create a CNAME that points to another >>>> domain. Example below. Is the below example possible? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> stars.mydomain.com <http://stars.mydomain.com> IN CNAME >>>> stars.otherdomain.com <http://stars.otherdomain.com>. >>>> >>>> >>> If stars.mydomain.com is just an ordinary name in the mydomain.com zone, >>> then there is no problem with what you show above (except, >>> syntactically, you need the trailing dot, as was already pointed out). >>> >>> If, on the other hand, stars.mydomain.com is a *zone*, then it's not >>> possible, because in that case there would be "apex" records (records >>> whose name is the same as that of the zone); at a minimum, an SOA and at >>> least 2 NS records, which are required for each and every zone. When a >>> particular name owns a CNAME record, it cannot also own SOA or NS >>> records. >>> >> >> Not true. For a Domain alias use a DNAME: >> >> mydomain.com. IN DNAME otherdomain.com. >> > Bearing in mind that the OP asked specifically about creation of CNAMEs, > which part is "not true"?
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