Howto use the "root" Domain

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Fri Dec 5 23:43:28 UTC 2003


Kevin Darcy wrote:

>Falk Husemann wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Hello Newsgroup!
>>I'm wondering if it is possible to use my root-Domain (bogus.com fo 
>>example) for anything and give it a A- or CNAME-Record. 
>>
>>On a private Network I tried (nothing of it worked)
>>
>>bogus.com.	IN A	123.123.123.123
>>bogus.com	IN A	123.123.123.123
>>@			IN A	123.123.123.123
>>
>>Everything beside this works flawlessly with Bind 9.2.1 (Debian).
>>
>>
>>Can you  help?
>>
>>    
>>
>You should have no trouble adding an A record with the same name as that 
>of a zone (please don't call it a "root-Domain", though, since strictly 
>speaking only "." is the "root-Domain"). What kind of errors, problems 
>did you get when you tried this?
>
>You cannot, however, have the name of a zone own a CNAME record, because 
>of the following rule:
>
>    If a name owns a CNAME record, then it cannot own any other records
>    of any type
>
Oops! That should be "... of any other type" of course...

                                                                      - 
Kevin




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