Is it possible for to resolve a zone fqdn?

Chris Holman chrish at owl.co.uk
Tue Apr 23 16:18:12 UTC 2002




> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
> Behalf Of Barry Margolin
> Sent: 23 April 2002 16:54
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject: Re: Is it possible for to resolve a zone fqdn?
>
>
> In article <aa3s1q$s8k at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Chris Holman
> <chrish at owl.co.uk> wrote:
> >If the dns masterfile for zone1 (dns.zone1.com) contains an NS
> entry for a
> >dns of a subsequent zone2 (dns.zone2.zone1.com) is it possible to resolve
> >the zone fqdn "zone2.zone1.com" to the IP of "dns.zone2.zone1.com"?
> >
> >If I added a CNAME record to the masterfile of zone1 would this conflict
> >with the zone2 NS entry i.e.
> >
> ># zone1.com masterfile
> >zone2.zone1.com.     IN    NS     dns.zone2.zone1.com.
> >dns.zone2.zone1.com. IN    A      xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> >zone2.zone1.com.     IN    CNAME  dns.zone2.zone1.com.
>
> No, this violates the "CNAME and other data" restriction.
>
> The way to do this is for the zone2.zone1.com zone file (on
> dns.zone2.zone1.com) to contain:
>
> @ IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>
> --
> Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net

Excellent. Works like a dream.

Thanks all,
Chris



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