[clug-talk] Subdomains and DNS

[Gustin Johnson]

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I use CNAMEs all the time.  This is really handy as I have a few dyndns
accounts, and my host.mydomain.tld is merely a CNAME for for the dyndns.
 The trick to cname records is that they must end with a period.  So an
example:

myalias IN CNAME  somehost.somedomain.tld.

Notice the trailing .

Hth,

Shawn wrote:
> Thanks for the info.  My subdomain list is getting kinda long, and they 
> all point tot he same IP (didn't want to mess with CNAME records, which 
> I've only had partial luck with, so they are all A records...)
> 
> That entry would allow me to create subdomains on the fly without 
> worrying about the DNS.  You're right though, if you want a particular 
> name to point to a different box, you might have problems, or need to 
> handle the redirection differently.
> 
> Shawn
> 
> Jon wrote:
>> Shawn wrote:
>>
>>> hmmm... I'd like to know how you got the wildcard thing working - would 
>>> make my life a little easier.  :)
>> As per my last post on the subject, it turns out that I am utterly wrong 
>> and everyone else is right. I do, in fact, have a wildcard DNS record 
>> that I set up a long time ago and then promptly forgot about.
>>
>> As for setting it up, it's silly easy, really. I have a Zone Edit record 
>> that points *.linuxworldnet.com to my main IP.
>>
>> I imagine it might get a little more complicated if you wanted to have 
>> separate machines on your domain doing different things (as in, if 
>> ftp.yourdomain.com was actually supposed to point to a different box). 
>> But for my purposes, this seems to be working fine.
>>
>> Back under my rock...
>>
> 
>
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