Now I'm in trouble...

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Fri Oct 7 06:08:54 UTC 2005


> But wouldn't I lose the ability to have the name "dns1" unless I set up 
> another box ?

	No.  You only need address records to be a nameserver.
 
> I'm still looking at "views" and would like it known by another name 
> internally, like "dmz.internalname"  or "dmz" for short.  And isn't it 
> those PTR records that allow the http browsing for "light-family.com" or 
> "www.light-family.com"  or (probably less desired) "dns1.light-family.com" 
> and "mail.light-family.com"  ??   Or, did I "accidentally" set that up 
> with Apache ?   It just seemed odd to me to name a name server 
> mail.blahblah...

	No. HTTP only requires the name eventually resolves to a
	address record.
	
> I used the tools at dnsstuff.com , and get:
> 
> dns1.light-family.com. Reports no A records (NODATA type 2)

	All the servers for light-family.com have the address record.
	I have no idea where dnsstuff.com is getting this response.
 
> I'm guessing I still need more tweaking there also...  As long as square 
> it away before SBC propogates at 5:30 PM tomorrow I should be good for the 
> weekend.
> 
> Thanks for all the help, Mark, I really appreciate your time.  I'm hitting 
> the sack right now - tomorrow's another long day.
> 
> - Bill
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