DNS Equivalent of Hosts file alias

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Two part question:

1) In DNS, how do you replicate the effect of an alias in your host file?

2) Is there a way to have a space in the alias?

s15199d

Posted 2013-06-05T19:42:28.123

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  • cname 2) no spaces in a hostname
    • < – ott-- – 2013-06-05T19:51:36.160

    1Could you clarify your question? It's hard to say what you want to achieve. – gronostaj – 2013-06-05T19:57:04.460

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    a DNS alias is called a CNAME record, and is defined like

    www        IN      CNAME  server1

    in your zone file where server1 is a A record hostname within the zone, and www is the alias. No, Spaces may not be present in DNS Records.

    http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch8/cname.html

    Frank Thomas

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