> CNAME.  (I'm not even sure that a CNAME pointing outside of 
> the current zone
> is legal. 

It's perfectly legal.    

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Sherohman [mailto:esper at sherohman.org]
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 10:56 AM
> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Web Fowarding and MX records
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 05:12:58AM -0800, Jonathan Kline wrote:
> > Services like ireg offer web fowarding? How can this
> > be accomplished in linux? Make a domain file in bind
> > then add:
> > www  IN  CNAME <real:url>
> > to it?
> > Thanks for the help. I'll need to know this if I stand
> > a chance of switching all our servers to Linux...
> 
> Read the DNS-HOWTO.  It will tell you everything you need to 
> know to set up
> functional zone files, as well as a good bit of the theory 
> and practice of
> how they work.
> 
> As for your actual question, I would set that up as an A 
> record rather than a
> CNAME.  (I'm not even sure that a CNAME pointing outside of 
> the current zone
> is legal.  It doesn't seem like a good idea, though.  Too 
> easily broken.)
> 
> www IN A 111.222.333.444
> 
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