Re: BIND8 templates & CNAMEs

[Mark E. <ma...@an...>]

So you're right.  What doesn't work with the latest Webmin version is 
making an A record with @ as the Name, which I thought was necessary to 
use @ as the Real Name for an alias.  Turns out you can use @ as the 
Real Name for an alias without defining what @ is, so this all works 
fine.

Thanks for the help!

On Sunday, May 4, 2003, at 10:52  PM, Jamie Cameron wrote:

> Entering an @ as the value is the right solution, and at least in the 
> current Webmin version (1.080) it is accepted by the rest of the 
> module as well. It may not have been in some older releases though ..
>
>  - Jamie
>
> Mark Edwards wrote:
>> I figured out the trick where you use "." to mean the hostname on the 
>> Record Name of the templates interface, but I don't see any way to 
>> automatically enter the hostname into the Value field.
>> I typically set up dns entries like this:
>> hostname.com.       IN NS           ns1.myserver.com.
>> hostname.com.       IN NS           ns1.myslaveserver.com.
>> hostname.com.       IN A              xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>> www                         IN CNAME        hostname.com.
>> ftp                              IN CNAME        hostname.com.
>> mail                           IN CNAME        hostname.com.
>> hostname.com.        IN MX   10      mail.myserver.com.
>> This way, all I have to do to update the IP of a domain is change it 
>> in one place.  Of course, I can always enter a dummy A record like
>> alias                          IN A             xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>> and point the CNAMEs to that, but that means changing the IP in two 
>> places instead of one, which doubles the work to change a long list 
>> of domain names.  Is there a trick to making this work?
>> Another possibility would be to use @ in place of the domain name, 
>> but the rest of webmin refuses to accept that, even though the 
>> templates section is actually willing to do it.
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