We just bought a new, shorter, domain name for our company. I want this new domain name to act just like our current domain name (e.g. mail to barb@newdomain.com goes to barb@olddomain.com, www.newdomain.com points to www.olddomain.com). We manage our own dns server and use NetworkSolutions to advertise our nameservers.

Ideally I won't need to duplicate and maintain two complete sets of config files for the two domains, but maybe that's how it's done?

I figure that I need to do some tweaking to our sendmail configuration as well as our DNS configuration, but I'm not sure what I'm doing. This seems like it should be a common request, yet I'm not finding any references to how this is done -- maybe I just don't know the right terms to search for.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?
barb

Create CNAMES for your hosts in the new domain mapping them to the old domain, or vice versa (eg. setup the new resource records in the new domain, and create CNAMEs in the old domain replacing your existing entries). You can also create catch all (*) and bare domain (@) records so you don't have to create a record for each host.

You shouldn't use a CNAME your for your MX..

or your NS.

Thanks, this works great.