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Pete Nelson
I have several domain names that are pointed to one box (web hosting).
I'm going to be installing a new web server at a new hosting company, so
I've been going through DNS and setting all these domains up with only
CNAME records that point to a valid A record so I won't have to change
the IP address in dozens of places.
I was setting secondary zones for these domains on another server to
ease the transition when the time comes. I found that I could not
transfer the zones from the primary unless the primary had an A record.
As soon as I added an A record to the primary, I was able to transfer
them. Once it was transferred, I could remove the A record from the
primary, recreate it as a CNAME record and I could still transfer it
from the machine with the secondary zone.
So a couple questions...
1) Is this a bug or by design?
2) Is it a bad practice to use CNAMEs only and not A records? I'm not
pointing MX records to CNAMEs, just IP resolution for web sites.
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Pete "DVDTracker" Nelson | When the barrel of my Glock
(e-mail address removed) | meets Hoppes #9, it's like
www.petenelson.com | a long-lost family reunion.
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I'm going to be installing a new web server at a new hosting company, so
I've been going through DNS and setting all these domains up with only
CNAME records that point to a valid A record so I won't have to change
the IP address in dozens of places.
I was setting secondary zones for these domains on another server to
ease the transition when the time comes. I found that I could not
transfer the zones from the primary unless the primary had an A record.
As soon as I added an A record to the primary, I was able to transfer
them. Once it was transferred, I could remove the A record from the
primary, recreate it as a CNAME record and I could still transfer it
from the machine with the secondary zone.
So a couple questions...
1) Is this a bug or by design?
2) Is it a bad practice to use CNAMEs only and not A records? I'm not
pointing MX records to CNAMEs, just IP resolution for web sites.
--
===============================================================
Pete "DVDTracker" Nelson | When the barrel of my Glock
(e-mail address removed) | meets Hoppes #9, it's like
www.petenelson.com | a long-lost family reunion.
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