Subject: Re: dns gurus?
From: That Guy Josh (augustus@acerbic.org)
Date: Mon Mar 18 2002 - 13:34:49 AKST
Not sure about using bindconf, but I can show you an example zone file
that is doing everything you are asking, I think.
This is the zone file for my internal network, penguin.land :
; Penguin.land internal, fake domain for local DNS
$TTL 3D
@ IN SOA ns.penguin.land. root.penguin.land. (
2002010102 ; serial, todays date + todays serial #
8H ; refresh, seconds
2H ; retry, seconds
4W ; expire, seconds
1D ) ; minimum, seconds
NS ns ; Inet Address of name server
MX 10 mail.penguin.land ; Primary Mail Exchanger
localhost A 127.0.0.1
ns A 192.168.0.4
mail A 192.168.0.1
discworld A 192.168.0.1
pointless A 192.168.0.2
midget A 192.168.0.14
mp3box A 192.168.0.3
freebsd A 198.78.70.185
test A 192.168.0.5
bollocks CNAME ns
As you can see above you can either use multiple A records for pointers to
the same machine or a CNAME (cannonical name, basically points to the
"real" name of the machine) There are positives and negatives to using
CNAME's I won't go into here. Also see the DNS howto on the LDP
(http://www.aklug.org/LDP/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html) for more details on what
all this mumbo-jumbo means.
-Josh
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 jsaam@mcc-cpa.com wrote:
> Question for you DNS buffs out there..
>
> Using the Bindconf utility, what is the proper way to configure an
> Authoritive record for a domain (lets say domain.com) -- and also have
> pointers (which actually point to the same machine.. for now) that go to
> ftp.domain.com <ftp://ftp.domain.com> , mail.domain.com, and www.domain.com
> <http://www.domain.com> ---
>
> I may have done this incorrectly in that I added host records (as apposed to
> alias) for each of those..
>
> Also, do I HAVE to setup a recursive lookup (arpa) for my domain to work
> correctly (ie: send/recv email)
>
> any help appreciated
>
> Jon
>
>
>
>
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Josh Burroughs
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