Re: Pointing a domain to a domain

[Paul Theodoropoulos <paul@anastrophe.com>]

At 08:00 AM 3/17/2007, Jonathan Duncan wrote:
> As per the Google instructions I have setup my client's domain this way.
>
> # ghs.google.com = 66.249.81.121
> # Zone = drduncanchiropractic.com
> .drduncanchiropractic.com::ns1.bluesunhosting.com:3600
> .drduncanchiropractic.com::ns2.bluesunhosting.com:3600
> +drduncanchiropractic.com:ghs.google.com:3600
> +www.drduncanchiropractic.com:ghs.google.com:3600
> +docs.drduncanchiropractic.com:ghs.google.com:3600
> +calendar.drduncanchiropractic.com:ghs.google.com:3600
> +start.drduncanchiropractic.com:ghs.google.com:3600
> +googleffffffff915d6a88.drduncanchiropractic.com:64.233.167.99:3600
> +mail.drduncanchiropractic.com:ghs.google.com:3600
> @drduncanchiropractic.com::aspmx.l.google.com:1:3600
> @drduncanchiropractic.com::alt1.aspmx.l.google.com:5:3600
> @drduncanchiropractic.com::alt2.aspmx.l.google.com:5:3600
> @drduncanchiropractic.com::aspmx2.googlemail.com:10:3600
> @drduncanchiropractic.com::aspmx3.googlemail.com:10:3600
> @drduncanchiropractic.com::aspmx4.googlemail.com:10:3600
> @drduncanchiropractic.com::aspmx5.googlemail.com:10:3600
>
> However, this does not seem to work.  dnsqr shows me this:
>
> # dnsqr a drduncanchiropractic.com
> 1 drduncanchiropractic.com:
> 108 bytes, 1+0+1+0 records, response, noerror
> query: 1 drduncanchiropractic.com
> authority: drduncanchiropractic.com 300 SOA ns1.bluesunhosting.com 
> hostmaster.drduncanchiropractic.com 1174142519 16384 2048 1048576 2560
> This is what DNS Report says about it:
> http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=drduncanchiropractic.com
>
> When I use the IP address in place of ghs.google.com, the hostnames 
> work fine.  So I am contacting Google to see if using the IP is 
> acceptable or if they plan on changing the IP of that hostname often.
> Is there any reason why using the hostname instead of the IP would 
> be a problem?
yes - you're using the code for an alias ( + ) rather than  the code 
for a CNAME ( C ).
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/tinydns-data.html



Paul Theodoropoulos
http://www.anastrophe.com