how do I CNAME a whole domain?

[Red Squirrel]

I want to add a CNAME on a full domain to go to another domain. Is this possible?

I changed this line:


@ IN A [ip]


to:


@ IN CNAME sub.domain.com.


No go.

Basically I want any request to go to the Ip of sub.domain.com, without having to specify the IP (it could change so don't want to have to change it each time).

 

[child of wonder]

Not sure if it'll work or not since I've never tried it but did you increment your serial # and run rndc reload?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Oh forgot the serial part. Though it seems updates work without incrementing it. In my case most of the stuff I tried would just cause it to fail to start. And what does rndc reload do? Is it the same as service named restart or does it do something else?

I managed to get something to work though. I just CNAMED www and it turned out to be all that was needed in my case.