Alias an entire zone

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Tony Evert

Hi,

Is it possible to alias an entire zone?

For example, let's say I have 50 host entries in myname.com.

I can create a new zone called yourname.com, and put 50 alias entries
that point to the hosts in myname.com, but is there a way to create a
single entry that aliases the entire zone?

Thanks!

Tony
 
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Tony Evert said:
Hi,

Is it possible to alias an entire zone?

For example, let's say I have 50 host entries in myname.com.

I can create a new zone called yourname.com, and put 50 alias entries
that point to the hosts in myname.com, but is there a way to create a
single entry that aliases the entire zone?

Thanks!

Tony
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I'm trying to figure out exactly what you are trying to achieve let me try
you want
anyname.myname.com to resolve to thesamename.yourname.com?
No, even if you created a wildcard CNAME it could only point to one specific
FQDN.
Unless I am misunderstanding what you want the results to be.
 
I have the following, as an example:
host1.myname.com
host2.myname.com
...
host50.myname.com

These hosts and IP's change from time to time.

I would like to duplicate that entire zone so that whatever hosts I
create/modify/delete in myname.com, automatically "exist" in yourname.com.
Basically *.yourname.com to actually resolve as *.myname.com.

Is this possible? The idea is that our primary domain is often misspelled,
and so I'd like a duplicate copy with popular misspllings without having to
maintain all the hosts in both, as I'm currently doing. :-)

Thanks!

Tony
 
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news.nw.centurytel.net said:
I have the following, as an example:
host1.myname.com
host2.myname.com
...
host50.myname.com

These hosts and IP's change from time to time.

I would like to duplicate that entire zone so that whatever hosts I
create/modify/delete in myname.com, automatically "exist" in
yourname.com. Basically *.yourname.com to actually resolve as
*.myname.com.

Is this possible? The idea is that our primary domain is often
misspelled, and so I'd like a duplicate copy with popular misspllings
without having to maintain all the hosts in both, as I'm currently
doing. :-)
Click to expand...

Hmm, I guess? ROFL
Try this in the myname.com zone create a new domain and name it "*" (without
quotes) then in the "*" subdomain create either a blank host pointing to an
IP address or a blank alias pointing to the FQDN with the IP you want it to
resolve to?
Then anything.myname.com will resolve to the FQDN or IP address of your
choosing.
In Win2k DNS wildcards can only be created as subdomains, DO NOT USE A
WILDCARD IN YOUR AD DOMAIN ZONE!
 
TE> Is it possible to alias an entire zone?

In theory, it should be possible to create this particular type of server-side
alias, whereby multiple parts of the DNS namespace tree contain equivalent
data, by simply configuring multiple "zones" to have the same, single, data
file, and using non-fully qualified domain names and the '@' placeholder
therein. This rules out Active Directory integration for those "zones", of
course.
 
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