Howto use the "root" Domain
Kevin Darcy
kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Fri Dec 5 23:37:01 UTC 2003
Falk Husemann wrote:
>Hello Newsgroup!
>I'm wondering if it is possible to use my root-Domain (bogus.com fo
>example) for anything and give it a A- or CNAME-Record.
>
>On a private Network I tried (nothing of it worked)
>
>bogus.com. IN A 123.123.123.123
>bogus.com IN A 123.123.123.123
>@ IN A 123.123.123.123
>
>Everything beside this works flawlessly with Bind 9.2.1 (Debian).
>
>
>Can you help?
>
You should have no trouble adding an A record with the same name as that
of a zone (please don't call it a "root-Domain", though, since strictly
speaking only "." is the "root-Domain"). What kind of errors, problems
did you get when you tried this?
You cannot, however, have the name of a zone own a CNAME record, because
of the following rule:
If a name owns a CNAME record, then it cannot own any other records
of any type
Since a zone name, by definition, owns an SOA record and at least 2 NS
records, this precludes its ownership of a CNAME record.
- Kevin
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