Domain and host - same name, different machines?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <8i5mm3$4lu$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,
Krista Connors  <krista at i-ax.com> wrote:
>If we have a host called division.company.com (with an appropriate DNS A
>record), can we add a subdomain called division.company.com so that
>hosts can exist under it (e.g.: www.division.company.com,
>mail.division.company.com, etc.) and still leave the
>division.company.com host in place, or will the host that has the name
>of the subdomain we want to add have to be removed? In other words, is
>the following ok?:
>
>$ORIGIN company.com.
>division IN A 192.168.3.6
>
>$ORIGIN division.company.com.
>www IN A 192.168.4.5
>mail IN A 192.168.4.6
>dns IN A 192.168.4.7

It's fine.

Think about it: don't you know about lots of domains where you can use
http://domain.com as well as http://www.domain.com?  Isn't this exactly
like what you're asking?

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