How to set up DNS to only add aliases?

[Mathias Koerber]

Why would the ISP be the primary for your company's domain, and NOT
allow you to request changes or to take over primary yourself?

Just curious.

On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Itai Tavor wrote:

| Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 11:35:41 +1000
| From: Itai Tavor <itavor at vic.bigpond.net.au.REMOVEME>
| To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
| Newsgroups: comp.protocols.dns.bind
| Subject: Re: How to set up DNS to only add aliases?
| 
| I should have given more information in my original post...
| 
| What I want to do is create sub-domain names, not assign registered
| domain names. So, if the ISP's DNS is the master for mycompany.com, I
| want to create aliases of the form sub1.mycompany.com,
| sub2.mycompany.com, etc. But to do that, it seems to me that I need to
| set up my own DNS as master for the mycompany.com domain, which would
| clash with the ISP.
| 
| Michael Voight wrote:
| 
| > Well, in order to create these virtual hosts and have people resolve to
| > them from outside your network, you have to have the domains in question
| > registered to use your nameservers. Aliases for other zones would not
| > usually interfere with the zone the ISP controls. You just configure the
| > zones with SOA, NS, and CNAME records pointing to the hostname that is
| > in your real zone, or simply using A records with the address of the
| > webserver.
| > 
| > Michael
| > 
| > Itai Tavor wrote:
| > > 
| > > Hi,
| > > 
| > > I'm a complete newbie when it comes to DNS... my ISP has set up DNS
| > > records for my domain, and I want to add aliases to my web server so I
| > > can use apache's named virtual hosts. How do I set up my DNS server so
| > > it only creates the aliases, without interfering with the domain
| > > records at the ISP? A complete example of the required config files
| > > would be greatly appreciated.
| > > 
| > > Thanks
| > > 
| > > Itai Tavor
| 

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