CNAME issue

Thu Dec 12 20:12:31 UTC 2013

    Confused :(

    Do your customer want:

www.xyz.com pointing to the same IP as www.abcd.com

    without having to manage xyz.com?

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With bind:

    zonefile xyz.com

    $ORIGIN     xyz.com.
    <yadiyada TTL SOA>

    $INCLUDE    domains/abcd.com.all

     zonefile abcd.com

    $ORIGIN     abcd.com.
    <yadiyada TTL SOA>

    $INCLUDE    domains/abcd.com.all

    Just make sure nothing is the .all has the .abcd.com. (dots are
important).

Without bind:

    Good luck.

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On 12/12/13 13:54, David Dowdle wrote:
> short answer: can't be done
>
> You cannot have a cname and 'other' information for same entry.  As a
> zone requires an SOA record, you cannot have a CNAME for the entire
> domain (theoretically a registrar could do it in .com, but afaik
> nobody does his).
>
> Depending on customer's requirements, can put in a  wildcard 
> *.abcd.com in cname xyz.com
>
> Or can load the same zone file for both abcd.com and xyz.com, so in
> both, mail<domain> goes to the same place
>
>
> On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, Methsri Wickramarathna wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>> One of our customer having the following requirement.
>>
>> There is a domain abcd.com ( zone file created , A records are
>> pointed ).
>> He has another domain xyz.com. He want us to create a separate zone file
>> for " xyz.com " & abcd.com should be the CNAME of it. ( No "A" records
>> mentioned )
>>
>> I'm bit confuse about adding this in zone file. Can any one help ? :(
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