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Old 08-13-2001, 07:27 PM   #1
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Question DNS Bind Question


Help me point foo.com to big.foobar.com

foo.com is my personal domain that I control DNS for.
big.foobar.com is on a webserver on a different network in a different country. I have a user account, big, with a website, big.foobar.com.

What do I put on foo.com zone file to point that site to the big directory at foobar.com?

I have been trying to find an answer in O'reilly's DNS and Bind 4th Edition so if you'd like, refer me to the chapter or page.

I can accomplish this easy with Apache but I would rather do it through DNS so the trace route goes to foobar.com.

thanks.
 
Old 08-14-2001, 12:51 AM   #2
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For the zone foobar.com.

If you're using the shortened notation...
Code:
@ IN SOA big.foobar.com.   hostmaster.big.foobar.com.     (
				serial;
				and TTL;
				values;
				);

	IN NS big.foobar.com.
	IN NS bigger.foobar.com.


	IN A 111.111.111.111  #big.foobar.com's IP
www	IN A 111.111.111.111  #www.foobar.com's IP
mail	IN A 111.111.111.222  #mail.foobar.com
Note the blanks ahead of the IN NS and IN A records. We are implying that we use the $ORIGIN (the zone name) in any lines that DON'T end in a dot. So "" implies "foobar.com" and "www" implies "www.foobar.com" etc... We could also have used
Code:
foobar.com.		IN A 111.111.111.111
www.foobar.com.		IN A 111.111.111.111
mail.foobar.com		IN A 111.111.111.222
foobar.com and www.foobar.com will point to 111.111.111.111, but since I left out the trailing "." on mail.foobar.com it will make "mail.foobar.com.foobar.com" point to 111.111.111.222 - a common mistake.
 
  


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