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[Alfred Grahame Leach]

OOPS...

Now that I understand what it is that you are talking about, I realize 
that what I said in my previous response to this message about CNAME and 
MX DNS records is useless to you.  What you're referring to is the fact 
that InterNIC requires that you have a primary and secondary nameserver 
for you domain to provide high likelihood that one of them will be 
available.  What I was talking about has nothing to offer regarding a 
solution to this problem.  Sorry for wasting your (and everybody else 
listening) time...

- Al Leach

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On Sat, 9 Mar 1996, Omar Loggiodice wrote:

> Michael David Ivey Writes :
> :
> :Ok, I have one name for my machine, but I want to 
> :register an alternate name, with a second level domain, and InterNIC 
> :wants DNS service to already know of that hostname.  So, how can I get 2 
> :servers to know that this second name is my machine?  If I ran DNS on my 
> :machine, would that be one?  And if I could get someone else to add it, 
> :would that count as two?  Or am I going to have to pay someone, other 
> :than the 100 bucks to InterNIC?  Anyone done this before?  I'm new to the 
> :DNS world, and want to get more info on it.  Thanks!
> :
> : 
> 
>    What InterNIC generally requires is two name servers for your domain
> running in separate machines, preferrably in separate networks. Adding a
> second domain just means configuring those two name servers to provide
> authorative (SOA records) information for your second domain (as well as the
> first one, of course). You will need to use NS, SOA, PTR and A records, and
> you would probably also want CNAME records for hosts like
> www.firstdomain.com and ftp.secondomain.com. In your case both domains will
> point to the same IP address (that's how you get the "...servers to know
> that this second name is my machine? ").
> 
>    I won't go into the details of how to do all this, instead I'll recommend
> you to buy and read an excellent book:
> 
> "DNS and BIND" from O'Reilly and Associates, ISBN 1-56592-010-4
> 
> You'll find it in most computer-related bookstores. 
> 
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