Setting up DNS A record for a domain

[David Botham]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of Jeff Stevens
> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 1:19 PM
> To: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: Setting up DNS A record for a domain
> 
> I was working on a question about how to setup A records for a browser
> and I have another question about defining A records as a result.  Say
> your want to resolve to a domain host for web browsers, so you have
this
> configuration:
> 
>    realwebserver.mycompany.com. IN A 192.168.1.1
>    www.mycompany.com.  IN CNAME realwebserver.mycompany.com.
> 
> What is the accepted configuration to make "mycompany.com" resolve as
> well?  Is it normally expected to resolve to www.mycompany.com?  Does
it
> even make any sense to have it resolve to anything else?

Do this:

mycompany.com.			A	192.168.1.1
realwebserver.mycompany.com	CNAME	mycompany.com.
www.mycompany.com			CNAME	mycompany.com.


Dave...


> 
> Thank you...
> --
> Jeffrey Stevens
>