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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