<div dir="ltr">The error is telling you that a DNS entry already exists for the hostname you want the CNAME. A DNS record can only have one record type. Meaning is you have 1.2.3.4 points to <a href="http://test.example.com">test.example.com</a> you cannot have <a href="http://test.example.com">test.example.com</a> also be a CNAME for <a href="http://foo.example.com">foo.example.com</a>.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><b><font size="2">Mike Plemmons | Senior DevOps Engineer</font></b><div>614-741-5475</div><div><a href="mailto:mike.plemmons@crosschx.com" target="_blank">mike.plemmons@crosschx.com</a></div><div><a href="http://www.crosschx.com/" target="_blank">www.crosschx.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Mike Jacobacci <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikej@flowjo.com" target="_blank">mikej@flowjo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>I am sorry for the simple question, but I am using FreeIPA as our DNS server and I am trying to figure out how to map a second hostname to a host... I am unsure how the best way to go do it. <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"open sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">I am just trying to give a server a user friendly</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"open sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"> name for access and I don't want to change the system hostname. </span></div><div><br></div><div>I thought I could just add a CNAME entry for the host record, but it fails with the following error:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"open sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">invalid 'cnamerecord': CNAME record is not allowed to coexist with any other record (RFC 1034, section 3.6.2)</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"open sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"open sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Is there an easy way I can do this?</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"open sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"open sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Cheers,</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"open sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Mike</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"open sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></span></div><div><br></div></div>
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