same hostname in muliple zones

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9o7mj6$q8m at pub3.rc.vix.com>, peter <peter_sands at my-deja.com> wrote:
>I have just taken over a DNS setup. Going through the zones, I noticed
>that the
>same hostname is in more then one zone. Is this normal, I cannot see
>the point of it, for example, there are three zone, and the same host
>is in all of them:
>jam.eu.local.com
>jam.uk.local.com
>jam.cont.local.com

The hostnames "www", "ftp", and "mail" are in many thousands of zones all
over the Internet.  Do you see anything wrong with that?  If not, why is
multiple hosts named "jam" any different?

In your case, it's likely that users in different parts of your company
have different default domain suffixes on their computers (e.g. the ones in
England have a default domain "uk.local.com"), but they want all of them to
be able to refer to the name "jam" without having to enter the full name.

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