DNS : Help

[David Botham]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of David Botham
> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 6:03 PM
> To: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: RE: DNS : Help
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]
On
> > Behalf Of Kevin Darcy
> > Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 5:36 PM
> > To: bind-users at isc.org
> > Subject: Re: DNS : Help
> >
> >
> > "Narayan, Krishnan" wrote:
> >
> > > Hi : I need help, since i am new to BIND. We have BIND 8.2
running.
> I
> > > need to put a entry for MX and A record. I would appreciate the
> help.
> >
> > The most foolproof way to do this is add a couple lines like:
> >
> > foo.example.com. in mx 0 mail.example.com.
> > bar.example.com. in a 1.2.3.4
> 
> Did you mean:
> 
I mean, did you mean:

mail.example.com.	IN	A	1.2.3.4

;)

You know what I mean?

Dave...

> mail.example.com	IN	A	1.2.3.4
> 
> ???
> 
> Dave...
> 
> >
> > to the appropriate zone file. (Use whatever preference value you
> prefer
> > for the MX record, whatever IP you prefer for the A record, and of
> > course whatever names you prefer throughout). Be careful to put a
dot
> at
> > the end of all names you add, otherwise they might be
misinterpreted.
> >
> > After you've added the lines, increment the serial number of the
zone
> > (it's the first numeric field in the SOA record), and then reload or
> > restart your nameserver, so that it loads the new version of the
zone.
> >
> > You would be wise to familiarize yourself with the syntax of zone
> files.
> > The above syntax is "foolproof", but it's quite verbose, and if you
> > always format your resource records this way, your zone file quickly
> > becomes unreadable. Once you know what you are doing, in many cases
> you
> > should be able to use relative names (e.g. just "foo" instead of
> > "foo.example.com.") or under the right circumstances, just
> > leading-whitespace, in your resource records. This makes the
zonefile
> > much easier to read and maintain.
> >
> >
> > - Kevin
> >
>