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Re: BIND DNS question

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Chris Gamble (cgamble@smartt.com)
Mon, 21 Feb 2000 21:45:13 -0800

Luca Filipozzi wrote:
> You don't have to do your own primary/secondary. There is a free DNS service available
> from soa.granitecanyon.com.
>
> Since you have ADSL from Telus, you also have a static hostname... so you can use a
> CNAME.
>
> What I mean is this:
> 1) Go to soa.granitecanyon.com and set up the zone files for your domain: shane.com.
> In these zone files, you can set up CNAME records as follow:
> www.shane.com IN CNAME a3aXXXXX.hsia.telus.net
> 2) Register shane.com with a registrar and specify soa.granitecanyon.com's nameservers
> as your primary/secondary.

Don't forget the ;EXTREF (external reference) after the CNAME record:

www.shane.com IN CNAME a3aXXXXX.hsia.telus.net. ;EXTREF

Otherwise, nslint will barf.

Chris Gamble
cgamble@smartt.com 

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