Setting up Internal DNS server
Kevin Darcy
kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Sat Dec 8 04:47:40 UTC 2001
Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <9up0l3$sro at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
> Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
> >Enter "www.mydomain.com" into the "mydomain.com" zone file, resolving to an
> >address. In the same zone file, enter "mail.mydomain.com", resolving to some
> >other address. That's about all you can with BIND or DNS. How clients access
> >those servers once they discover their addresses, is beyond the scope of
> >BIND or DNS.
>
> Why do you recommend using A records instead of CNAME records, like I wrote
> yesterday?
I wasn't assuming that the original poster had already created A records for the
machines in question.
- Kevin
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