domain name entries in a zone
Barry Margolin
barmar at alum.mit.edu
Thu Jun 3 22:40:24 UTC 2004
In article <c9o7vn$7lr$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
"Preston Wade" <Preston_Wade at hilton.com> wrote:
> I think that because, I think of a domain and a host as two different =
> types of nodes. If you want host type entries such as foo.com then they =
> should live in the com domain. If you want host type entries such as =
> www.foo.com then they should live in the foo.com domain.
Your thinking is misguided. The purpose of delegation is to indicate
that someone else is in charge of everything related to a zone, and that
includes the attributes of the zone name itself. If the zone name
happens to be used as a host name, that's for the zone administrator to
configure.
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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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