How to set up DNS to only add aliases?

Michael Voight mvoight at cisco.com
Thu Aug 19 06:55:19 UTC 1999



Itai Tavor wrote:
> 
> 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.

But if you did that, there would be no reason for the ISP to be the
master for the zone. You don't have to be the master for mycompany.com.
You can simply have the ISP put an NS record in the mycompany.com zone
that delegates the subzoness to you.

Michael


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