Is this legit?

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 01:30:43PM -0400, Mark E. Drummond wrote:
> Is it OK to have something like the following in a zone file?
> 
> Assuming the domain is myco.com:
> 
> www.leethaxor.myco.com	A	192.168.1.1
> 
> where leethaxor is a machine, not a subdomain.

DNS doesn't know the one from the other.  All it knows is, if it sees
the label on the left, and someone asks for its A record, it will send
the value on the right.

If you've noticed, people have started assigning addresses to their
domains, effectively saying that those are the names of those machines.
And there are other machines under that domain, and even subdomains.
So why not start assigning names in a "domain" that is a physical
machine?

In fact, technically, there is no such thing as a machine name in BIND
- both leaf [machine] and branch [domain/subdomain] names are called
"domain names".

Bottom line: "yes".

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Joe Yao				jsdy at cospo.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
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