How to set up DNS to only add aliases?

[Itai Tavor]

Mathias Koerber wrote:

Good question... first, I want to control the aliases so I don't have
to wait for the ISP to add/change them for me. Second, I don't want to
take over primary. I don't need the added hassle or responsibility. If
what I want to do can't be done, I'll just have to continue asking the
ISP to add aliases. But I won't be happy.

> 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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