Setting up Internal DNS server

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9uoo3a$rd7 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Peter Knowles <pnet at execulink.com> wrote:
>What I am attempting to do is have BIND control how requests are handled.
>For instance:
>
>Someone goes to: www.mydomain.com
>
>BIND would then say "hmm www.mydomain.com" is handled by "workstation", then
>would handle the request accordingly.
>
>Then someone goes to: mail.mydomain.com
>
>BIND would then say "hmm mail.mydomain.com" is handled by "server", then
>would handle the request accordingly.

In your zone file for the mydomain.com domain, you should have the
following entries:

workstation  IN A  <address of workstation>
server       IN A  <address of server>
www          IN CNAME workstation
mail         IN CNAME server

CNAME records are used to define aliases.

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