Domain name resolution?

[stuart nichols]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Tom Morris wrote:

> In my email xyz.com is our domain name. I want a DNS query on our
> intranet to return an internal ip I designate (e.g. I ping
> xyz.com). For example, on the net, when I ping yahoo.com - a
> domain - I receive an ip address.  yahoo.com is used to illustrate
> the behavior I want to duplicate on my intranet for xyz.com. 

> No, I don't want to isolate our network. As I said, our DNS server
> is a slave that forwards queries to an internet DNS server. Our
> DNS server only resolves internal host names, all others are
> forwarded. 

This appears to be irrelevant.

> If there is no difference between a host name and a domain name
> does that mean I create an "A" record for the domain name I want
> to resolve, in this case xyz.domain. 

Yes.  Exactly.  Just add an A record for xyz.com into your zone file
for xyz.com, assuming you do have the xyz.com:

   xyz.com     in    ns     ns.bob.com.
               in    ns     ns.fred.com.
               in    A      10.0.0.123     <-- Whichever address you
                                               want to be pinged.

Please use real zones in any future queries.  You weren't even
self-consistant in naming xyz.com/xyz.domain.  That contributed
to why we couldn't understand what you wanted the first time
around, and why I had to read your message thru a couple of
times this time to understand what you really wanted.

--
stu
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stuart nichols
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Texas Department of Information Resources
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Suite 1300
Austin  TX  78701




> "Mathias Körber" <mathias at koerber.org> wrote in message
> news:NEBBLGLDKLMMGKEMEFMFOEHKCCAA.mathias at koerber.org...
> >
> > > We have an intranet with a DNS server. It is a slave that=20
> > > forwards Internet
> > > queries. Obviously it does internal name resolution.
> > >=20
> > > Our registered domain name is xyz.com which we use this internally =
> > also.
> > >=20
> > > Now I want our DNS server to respond with an internal IP address when
> > > someone pings xyz.com, as, for example, if I ping yahoo.com while on =
> > the
> > > net.
> >
> > Is xyz.com=3Dyahoo.com?
> > No? Then did you mean 'as opposed to if I ping yahoo.com'?
> >
> > Or do you want to return an internal IP address for *any* outside query
> > practically isolating your network from ur internal users?
> >
> > Or only for a (few) specific outside  sites?
> >
> > If you could be a bit more explicit in your description, it will be
> > easier to help you.
> >
> > regards
> >
> > >=20
> > > My questions at last: is this a referral our DNS server can make? If =
> > so
> > > which rr do I use?
> > >=20
> > > And after my reading, I don't recall, how are domain names resolved to =
> > ip
> > > addresses as opposed to host names.
> >
> > There is no difference between domainnames and hostnames in the DNS (for =
> > resolution
> > purposes).=20
> >
> >
> >
> >
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