# # Newsgroup Posting # Subject: Re: Virtual Name Servers From: flaq@synwork.com (Mike) Date: 1996/07/31 Message-Id: Sender: news@camelot.de References: <2.2.32.19960730133701.009754d4@netview.net> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Organization: Mail2News Gateway at Camelot Online Services Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: muc.lists.freebsd.questions On Tue, 30 Jul 1996, John Clark wrote: > Hello, > > I was looking for someone who had in depth knowledge of the named (name > daemon) in FreeBSD. In particular, I was trying to setup an alias for my > name server. The reason is to look like 2 different name servers are > running on 2 different domains. For example: > > ns.company-a.com 1.1.1.1 > ns.company-b.com 2.2.2.2 > > Both would actually be ns.company-a.com (1.1.1.1), but company-b would look > like they were running their own name server. I tell you that named code is > so poor (patched), I can't figure what the heck is going on. I am surprised > it works at all! > > As Internet users become more sophisticated, they will run whois queries to > see who is really running their own server -- I would like to make it > virtually impossible to detect that my clients do not actually run their own > server. > If you already have company-a setup in your DNS, just add a CNAME entry in the hosts file for that domain such as: IN NS ns1.synwork.com. IN NS ns1.phoenix.net. IN MX 10 synwork.com. ns1 IN CNAME synwork.com. synwork.com. IN A 199.3.234.4 synwork.com. IN A 204.120.255.17 ns2 IN A 204.120.255.18 If you need more help, let me know. Mike ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ Syn-Work Media, Inc. | WWW Development & Hosting | Life Safety http://www.synwork.com | Systems Integration | CCTV mike@synwork.com | Voice/Data/Fiber | Access Control Flaq on IRC | Dukane Distributor | BICSI/RCDD ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~