A record for a domain name

Michael Voight mvoight at cisco.com
Wed Jun 16 13:46:03 UTC 1999


Yes, I erred badly. You can not have a CNAME for a hostname that has any
other resource record. 

There is no difference between a creating A record for me.cisco.com and
cisco.com, so it doesn't need further documentaion. me.cisco.com. 
So you can have:


Michael

John Tan wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I know it is possible for an domain name such as cisco.com to A record
> to an ip address. maybe like Cisco.com IN NS <server> IN A <IP address> so
> that when you query an A record for the domain you can
> resolve to an ip address. But I can't find any reference to this in
> the DNS and Bind book. Can I know is this A record necessary ? If so
> what is the ip address pointing to ?
> 
> thanks for your help.
> John
> 
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