Is it possible for to resolve a zone fqdn?
Barry Margolin
barmar at genuity.net
Tue Apr 23 15:53:50 UTC 2002
In article <aa3s1q$s8k at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Chris Holman <chrish at owl.co.uk> wrote:
>If the dns masterfile for zone1 (dns.zone1.com) contains an NS entry for a
>dns of a subsequent zone2 (dns.zone2.zone1.com) is it possible to resolve
>the zone fqdn "zone2.zone1.com" to the IP of "dns.zone2.zone1.com"?
>
>If I added a CNAME record to the masterfile of zone1 would this conflict
>with the zone2 NS entry i.e.
>
># zone1.com masterfile
>zone2.zone1.com. IN NS dns.zone2.zone1.com.
>dns.zone2.zone1.com. IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>zone2.zone1.com. IN CNAME dns.zone2.zone1.com.
No, this violates the "CNAME and other data" restriction.
The way to do this is for the zone2.zone1.com zone file (on
dns.zone2.zone1.com) to contain:
@ IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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