Can one host name be mapped to 2 different IP addresses? (Please Help)
Kevin Darcy
kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Thu May 20 00:34:58 UTC 2004
Steve Werner wrote:
>I know very little about DNS, but I am learning. I have a situation
>where I have two NICs in one server, with each NIC supporting a
>separate subnet. I would like both NICs to have the same DNS host
>name, but I'm not sure how to do it or if it is even possible. For
>example, I would like to use the host name "VCCWS" for 192.168.1.14
>and 192.168.1.15. Is this possible? If so, how do I go about it.
>
It's trivial. Just define multiple A records with the same name.
One word of advice, though: now that you're learning about DNS, start
thinking in terms of FQDNs (fully-qualified domain names), instead of
short, hosts-file-sounding names like "VCCWS". If you bend over
backwards trying to coddle your users' preference for short names, this
is a never-ending, inefficient process and it's a bad fit for DNS, which
was designed specifically to *break* that mold.
- Kevin
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