How to override an A record

[Pascal Hambourg]

Bill Sandiford a écrit :
> 
> I'm not worried about resolution of further subdomains below 
> www.foo.bar.com.  My problem is that I am worried about other A records (or 
> records of other types) in the foo.bar.com domain.  For example, I want to 
> override a single A record www.foo.bar.com  but I still want the A record 
> for say, www2.foo.bar.com to resolve through normal channels from the true 
> authoritive DNS server.

As David said, make your DNS server authoritative for the zone 
www.foo.bar.com (not foo.bar.com) and put your A record www.foo.bar.com 
in it. Be aware that it will mask any other www.foo.bar.com record, not 
only the A record.