Following up a post on Sun, 15 Mar 2015, from mark lewis to Nicholas Boel:

 ml> it only works when there's no domain specified...

 ml> eg:
 ml> Zone,1,blahblahblah
 ml> Region,18,blahblah
 ml> Net,3634,blahblah
 ml> ,12,WPUSA,N.C._USA,mark_lewis,-Unpublished-,300,XA,CM,ITN,IBN,IVM,P
 ml> ING 

 ml> the above would be looked up as f12.n3634.z1.binkp.net or maybe
 ml> p0.f12.... and if my CNAME is working properly, it should then
 ml> lookup up my published domain and then give the IP address
 ml> currently in use for the connection... 

i forgot the important part... the conversion of the above nodelist entry to a
binkd connection entry...

the above would look like

    Node 1:3634/12@fidonet  *  -

with a domain line of

    domain fidonet x:\\binkd\\outbound\\fidonet 1 binkp.net

and those two are what leads to the fnz FNT address conversion and lookup at
binkp.net... the above domain line being for a 5D BSO setup...

if you wanted to do the same for agoranet, you would have (in 5D again)

    domain fidonet x:\\binkd\\outbound\\agoranet 46 agoranet.net
    [...]
    Node 46:100/132@agoranet  *  -

you would provide a DNS server with a zone file for the nodes in agoranet...
"agoranet.net" on the domain line would point to the actual agoranet domain
where the DNS server resides... i don't recall if you have .net, .org or
something else for the TLD so the above uses .net for example... kinda also
because agoranet is a network which is what .net was created for ;)

)\/(ark