Add aliases in DNS

[mm.is.working@…]

It is nice to have an aliases option in the DNS module.

[ejhernandez@…]

We do already have CNAME RR support in Zentyal but only for hostnames.

Do you need to add an alias from a zone for another zone?

[mm.is.working@…]

if you have multiple virtual hosts i want t load balance by (for example) roundrobin. like www CNAME 1.1.1.1 1.1.1.2 or fqdn. do i understand it correctly that in zentyal you can say by hostname server1 ipaddress server2. but i can do it manually but i dont think it will be visible in administrative interface

[ejhernandez@…]

Hi there,

In order to have load balancing, you just need to add more hostnames with the different IP addresses.

<pre> www A 1.1.1.1 www A 2.2.2.2 </pre>

If you mean, to have this, I understand to have someday as a new feature:

<pre> www CNAME fqdn.tld </pre>

Best,

[matt.moen@…]

Assigning an alias to an existing hostname seems wrong -- why not just let users create all types of records by adding the necessary fields on the add record form?

In my case i wanted to create an alias in a static zone that pointed to a host in the dynamic zone. CNAME records let you redirect anything in a domain I own to anywhere. For example I might define the server mail.mydomain.lan to point at an external mail server mail.example.com -- can't do this based on what's available. Moreover -- you can't even override it by changing the configuration, since it will be overwritten by zentyal.

I'd ask that you bump the priority on this

[jag]

Adding any kind of records as you proposes breaks the easy of use philosophie which we are using in zentyal.

Anyway if you want to suggest other features or to discuss more the matter, you can do it at ideas.zentyal.org

Regards,

Javier

[anonymous]

OK so don't add any record type -- but at least let me enter a non-internal, fully qualified domain name as the target of the alias.

[anonymous]

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