default host for ip resolving?

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Fri Aug 25 21:02:36 UTC 2000


Note that hhis only works if all preceding RR's in the zone have leading
whitespace or an owner name of "@". So it's position-dependent. If you were
to put such a RR at the end of the zonefile, for instance, it probably
wouldn't have the desired effect.


- Kevin

Steve wrote:

> just add a record without anything in the hostname section and usee the
> i.p. you want that record to point to. I set all my nameservers like this
> and it works great.
>
>            IN   A      64.244.3.245
> www        IN   A      64.244.3.245
> router     IN   A      64.244.3.241
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Steve
>
> On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, phillip rhodes wrote:
>
> >
> > I have a few domains that I run dns for...  To be able to access a
> > website for which I do dns for, one must specify the host for the domain
> > (e.g.  "www.thedomain.com")
> >
> > How can I configure dns to not need the "www" to resolve to an ip
> > address? so http://thedomain.com would work
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Phillip
> >
> >
> >
> >






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