cname to external host

[donkeyKICK]

I am trying to enter a cname to an external host. They only gave me a cname reference.

I want to point www.lindseybyrnes.com to agency5.livebooks.com.lindseybyrnes.com

I tried entering that entry into the DNS, but nothing happened (waited overnight). How long should it take? Do I have to delete out the A records or will it know to do the cname first?

 

[scsi]

Make sure you added the trailing . more then likely there was a dns error.

You can check /var/log/messages after doing a rndc reload or /sbin/service named restart

 

[donkeyKICK]

I have the trailing dot on both... should it only be on 1?

 

[nobaloney]

This appears to be working now. Please let us know your fix.

Jeff

 

[donkeyKICK]

I used a cname for the www

 www.mydomain.com. CNAME theirdomain.com.

and an A record for the other

mydomain.com. A 1.2.3.4

I wanted to use a CNAME for both, but apparently it isn't allowed. I don't know why. Band-aid fix.

 

[nobaloney]

You can't have a CNAME if there are any other references to the domain name. So if you had a CNAME record for exmaple.com, then you couldn't have any other records (MX, NS, even the main SOA record). It's a limitation of the DNS design.

Using an A record creates a problem if the IP# ever changes since you have no control over it.

More common is to create the CNAME for www and use a redirect (we use .htaccess) from example.com to www.example.com.

Jeff