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ANAME Records

If you'd like to alias the address records for a domain (that is A and AAAA) to another domain without using a full CNAME record (thereby redirecting TXT and other record types), you can use a ANAME record.

With a ANAME record our servers will lookup the address of the alias and return that as the authoritative answer for address queries of the ANAME.

Consider the following zone file:

example.com IN  A       1.2.3.4
example.com IN  TXT     "test"
example.org IN  ALIAS   example.com
example.org IN  TXT     "test2"
example.net IN  ALIAS   exmaple.com
example.gov IN  CNAME   example.com

The following results will be returned:

  • example.com IN A will return 1.2.3.4
  • example.com IN TXT will return "test"
  • example.org IN A will return 1.2.3.4
  • example.org IN TXT will return "test2"
  • example.net IN A will return 1.2.3.4
  • example.net IN TXT will return nothing
  • example.gov IN A will return 1.2.3.4
  • example.gov IN TXT will return "test"

Last update: July 13, 2020