Setting up DNS A record for a domain
David Botham
dns at botham.net
Fri Feb 21 18:34:23 UTC 2003
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of Jeff Stevens
> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 1:19 PM
> To: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: Setting up DNS A record for a domain
>
> I was working on a question about how to setup A records for a browser
> and I have another question about defining A records as a result. Say
> your want to resolve to a domain host for web browsers, so you have
this
> configuration:
>
> realwebserver.mycompany.com. IN A 192.168.1.1
> www.mycompany.com. IN CNAME realwebserver.mycompany.com.
>
> What is the accepted configuration to make "mycompany.com" resolve as
> well? Is it normally expected to resolve to www.mycompany.com? Does
it
> even make any sense to have it resolve to anything else?
Do this:
mycompany.com. A 192.168.1.1
realwebserver.mycompany.com CNAME mycompany.com.
www.mycompany.com CNAME mycompany.com.
Dave...
>
> Thank you...
> --
> Jeffrey Stevens
>
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