sneak in RR without SOA

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Mon Jun 14 18:36:45 UTC 1999


> 
> 
>         Gurus,
> 
>         Questions apply to BIND8.2p1 on Solaris 2.6. I want to know if these
>         are illegal, even if they might work.
> 
>         1)  If I have a zone with only one single entry, that is, the zone is
>         top100-jelly.com, and the only entry is
>                 @       IN    A    11.22.33.44
> 
>         can I cheat and forget about the SOA record for this zone?  I already
>         have a fully populated jelly.com zone; in the db file, how if I sneak a
>         FQDN in there like this:
>                 apple                   IN      A       11.22.33.1
>                 top100-jelly.com.       IN      A       11.22.33.44
>                 grape                   IN      A       11.22.33.2
> 
> 
>         2)  Can I have "www.pectin" as name? I remember reading in an RFC that
>         periods are used as delimiters but I can't remember the RFC number. This
>         gets me out of having to create a subdomain pectin.jelly.com with one 
>         entry - www.
> 
>         3) My overzealous legal dept. has registered jelly.com, jelly.net and
>         jelly.org.  If they had their ways we would also have jelly.mil,
>         jelly.gov and jelly.edu.  My jelly.net and jelly.org zones are empty
>         except for the SOA record.  I want to return hosts in jelly.com for
>         querries about jelly.net and jelly.org.  I don't want to write 5000 
>         CNAME entries and keep them straight.  I want to do this at the DNS 
>         level with one fell swoop.  Can BIND8.2 accomodate this?
> 
>         Regards,
> 
>         QCT
> 
> 
> 



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