DNS : Help

[Kevin Darcy]

David Botham wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> > Behalf Of David Botham
> > Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 6:03 PM
> > To: bind-users at isc.org
> > Subject: RE: DNS : Help
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]
> On
> > > Behalf Of Kevin Darcy
> > > Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 5:36 PM
> > > To: bind-users at isc.org
> > > Subject: Re: DNS : Help
> > >
> > >
> > > "Narayan, Krishnan" wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi : I need help, since i am new to BIND. We have BIND 8.2
> running.
> > I
> > > > need to put a entry for MX and A record. I would appreciate the
> > help.
> > >
> > > The most foolproof way to do this is add a couple lines like:
> > >
> > > foo.example.com. in mx 0 mail.example.com.
> > > bar.example.com. in a 1.2.3.4
> >
> > Did you mean:
> >
> I mean, did you mean:
>
> mail.example.com.       IN      A       1.2.3.4
>
> ;)
>
> You know what I mean?
>
> Dave...
>
> > mail.example.com      IN      A       1.2.3.4
> >
> > ???
> >
> > Dave...
> >
> > >
> > > to the appropriate zone file. (Use whatever preference value you
> > prefer
> > > for the MX record, whatever IP you prefer for the A record, and of
> > > course whatever names you prefer throughout). Be careful to put a
> dot
> > at
> > > the end of all names you add, otherwise they might be
> misinterpreted.
> > >
> > > After you've added the lines, increment the serial number of the
> zone
> > > (it's the first numeric field in the SOA record), and then reload or
> > > restart your nameserver, so that it loads the new version of the
> zone.
> > >
> > > You would be wise to familiarize yourself with the syntax of zone
> > files.
> > > The above syntax is "foolproof", but it's quite verbose, and if you
> > > always format your resource records this way, your zone file quickly
> > > becomes unreadable. Once you know what you are doing, in many cases
> > you
> > > should be able to use relative names (e.g. just "foo" instead of
> > > "foo.example.com.") or under the right circumstances, just
> > > leading-whitespace, in your resource records. This makes the
> zonefile
> > > much easier to read and maintain.

I wasn't assuming that the A record and the MX record were related to each
other.


- Kevin