How to override an A record

[Bill Sandiford]

Yes, this worked.

Thanks to all that helped.

"Pascal Hambourg" <boite-a-spam at plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote in message 
news:e98kip$2br2$1 at sf1.isc.org...
> Bill Sandiford a écrit :
>>
>> I'm not worried about resolution of further subdomains below
>> www.foo.bar.com.  My problem is that I am worried about other A records 
>> (or
>> records of other types) in the foo.bar.com domain.  For example, I want 
>> to
>> override a single A record www.foo.bar.com  but I still want the A record
>> for say, www2.foo.bar.com to resolve through normal channels from the 
>> true
>> authoritive DNS server.
>
> As David said, make your DNS server authoritative for the zone
> www.foo.bar.com (not foo.bar.com) and put your A record www.foo.bar.com
> in it. Be aware that it will mask any other www.foo.bar.com record, not
> only the A record.
>
>