Re: [tlug] BIND9 zone files

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@example.com>]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 23:20:27 +0900 (JST), Tod McQuillin <devin@example.com>
wrote to Tokyo LUG <tlug@example.com>:

> CNAME says "This name is just an alias for something else, look there for
> the real data".  It's like a symlink.

Yes, I appreciated that. What I wasn't aware of was the CNAME issue.

> So you should remove the cname record for bonivet.net.

I did and replaced it with another 'A' record pointing to 192.168.1.1.

Perfect - thanks!

Now I can reactivate the reverse DNS zones which I'd deactivated while
trying to get this working......

vi /etc/named.conf, uncomment the zone sections, killall -HUP named...

Yuppers..... Works fine.

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