domain name entries in a zone
Preston Wade
Preston_Wade at hilton.com
Wed Jun 2 16:12:11 UTC 2004
Thanks for the reply.
The primary domain is actually being hosted by someone else. So in this =
case this would not work. However I am using this method for some other =
domains.
I think a lot of people have missed my point. I wasn't looking for =
responses about what users expect. I get that all the time. I was =
really looking for more of a philosophical conversation around whether =
host type records should be allowed for domain names. Personally, I =
believe host type resource records for foo.com should have to be made in =
the com domain. Not that it would be possible, but given the hierarchy =
that is how I think it should work.
Thanks,
Preston
-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
Behalf Of David Botham
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 5:47 AM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: domain name entries in a zone
bind-users-bounce at isc.org wrote on 05/28/2004 12:42:11 PM:
> Hello All,
>=20
> I would like to start some conversations around valid domain name =3D
> entries in a zone file. It would seem to me that out of the more =
common=20
=3D
> records the only valid entries for a domain name would be a SOA =
record,=20
=3D
> some MX records and some NS records. We have several customers that =
=3D
> would like an A record for the domain name. So that when some enters =
=3D
> foo.com in the browser the user would actually get to the web site. =
=3D
> Some customers would even like a CNAME record for the domain name, so =
=3D
> that they could have a primary domain and have other domains CNAME to =
=3D
> the primary domain. I have tested this in BIND 9 and it doesn't seem =
to=20
=3D
By now you have read the other posts on why the CNAME idea is not going =
to=20
work. However, a work around might be to use a generic zone db file for =
all the "like" domains. This work around only works if all the domains =
in=20
question are hosted on the same name server. Here is a sample generic=20
zone db file that might work (there is also a recipe for this in =
Cricket's=20
Cookbook):
;Generic db file for all domain names at web site on IP address=20
10.10.10.1.
$TTL 1d
@ IN SOA ns1.foo.com. postmaster.foo.com. (
2004050701 ;Serial as yyyymmddnn
10800 ;Refresh Interval
3600 ;Retry Interval
604800 ;Expire Timeout
3600) ;Negetive Caching TTL
;Name Servers
@ IN NS ns1.foo.com.
@ IN NS ns2.foo.com.
;Mail Exchangers
;Other Zone Data
@ IN A 10.10.10.1
www IN CNAME @
hth,
Dave...
> like the CNAME record for a domain. I have found very little about =
this=20
=3D
> topic on the web so I figured this list could provide me some =
direction.
>=20
> Thanks,
> Preston
>=20
>=20
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