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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