Setting up Internal DNS server

[Kevin Darcy]

Barry Margolin wrote:

> In article <9up0l3$sro at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
> Kevin Darcy  <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
> >Enter "www.mydomain.com" into the "mydomain.com" zone file, resolving to an
> >address. In the same zone file, enter "mail.mydomain.com", resolving to some
> >other address. That's about all you can with BIND or DNS. How clients access
> >those servers once they discover their addresses, is beyond the scope of
> >BIND or DNS.
>
> Why do you recommend using A records instead of CNAME records, like I wrote
> yesterday?

I wasn't assuming that the original poster had already created A records for the
machines in question.


- Kevin