DNS query with no domain

[Kevin Darcy]

Do you understand what Matthew is proposing here?

You need to define and maintain a fake "mms" zone on *every* nameserver 
instance to which these devices will be talking in order to resolve DNS.

Are you willing to do that?

If you're willing to swallow that bitter pill, then you have essentially 
created a whole separate (albeit small) namespace that is independent of 
whatever else your nameserver instances may resolve. No further 
configuration is necessary, since you're not impacting any other 
resolution besides that of "mms".

                                                                         
            - Kevin

Prabhat Rana wrote:
> Thanks. BTW just to confirm that I don't need to make any changes in configuration or in zone file regarding the existing mms.ora.com?
> --- On Mon, 8/18/08, Matthew Pounsett <matt at conundrum.com> wrote:
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> From: Matthew Pounsett <matt at conundrum.com>
> Subject: Re: DNS query with no domain
> To: prana9533 at yahoo.com
> Cc: bind-users at isc.org
> Date: Monday, August 18, 2008, 3:19 PM
>
> On 18-Aug-2008, at 15:57 , Prabhat Rana wrote:
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>   
>> Matt,
>> Thanks for a quick response again. Yes the design for handheld  
>> device to be able to connect just by querying http://mms does look  
>> like broken. And yes http://mms is the only hostname that handheld  
>> will be access in this way (without domain). So to better understand  
>> the solution that you have provided,
>> At this time the authoritative servers have a zone db.ora.com in  
>> which there is A record for mms to an IP.
>> So what you're suggeting is configure a mms. zone in the named.conf  
>> and create a zone file called db.mms. and in that zone file have A  
>> record for mms to mms.ora.com? Now it responds with same IP for both  
>> mms.ora.com and mms?
>> And then put a forwarder for mms in recursive DNS that points to  
>> authoritative servers?
>>     
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>
> Yes, that sounds about right.   In the file db.mms (for the mms. zone)  
> you would insert an A record for the origin, not for a host called mms  
> (which would end up being mms.mms.)  So, if the IP address for  
> mms.ora.com is 192.0.2.1, your zone file for mms. would look something  
> like this:
>
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> mms. IN SOA name.server.ora.com. admin.name.server.ora.com. (
>       2008081812
>       30m
>       15m
>       7d
>       1h )
>
>       IN NS name.server.ora.com.
>       IN A 192.0.2.1
> ---
>
> Good luck,
>    Matt
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