Nameserver with Custom Hostname

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Mon Sep 27 17:55:21 UTC 1999


In article <gSgH3.19446$LL2.189348 at c01read02-admin.service.talkway.com>,
konfused <dev at null.cc> wrote:
>I know of cases where one machine hosts various services including a
>name server, but the Hostname is unique and not NSx or DNSx.  However
>Internic believes the machine name is NSx.thedomain.top.

This means that the person who registered the domain submitted a different
name than what he put in his DNS zone files.

>How is this accomplished?  Do the DNS records use NSx throughout the
>files and an A or CNAME for the friendly machine name?  Or is the other
>way around, and the records us the friendly name while an A or CNAME is
>used to map to NSx?

Since this is not something you should do, I'm not going to give you
examples.  It's best to use the same name in the registration and the DNS
files.

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