domain name entries in a zone

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Wed Jun 2 19:12:54 UTC 2004


Preston Wade wrote:

>Thanks for the reply.
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>The primary domain is actually being hosted by someone else.  So in this =
>case this would not work.  However I am using this method for some other =
>domains.
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>I think a lot of people have missed my point.  I wasn't looking for =
>responses about what users expect.  I get that all the time.  I was =
>really looking for more of a philosophical conversation around whether =
>host type records should be allowed for domain names.  Personally, I =
>believe host type resource records for foo.com should have to be made in =
>the com domain.  Not that it would be possible, but given the hierarchy =
>that is how I think it should work.
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What on earth would be the value in that? Do you really want to have to 
go to a registrar every time one of your zone-apex records changes? I 
guess I don't understand your reasoning here. The whole point of the 
tree-structure of DNS is to be able to delegate authority...

                                                                         
                                             - Kevin

>-----Original Message-----
>From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
>Behalf Of David Botham
>Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 5:47 AM
>To: bind-users at isc.org
>Subject: Re: domain name entries in a zone
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>bind-users-bounce at isc.org wrote on 05/28/2004 12:42:11 PM:
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>>Hello All,
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>>I would like to start some conversations around valid domain name =3D
>>entries in a zone file.  It would seem to me that out of the more =
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>common=20
>=3D
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>>records the only valid entries for a domain name would be a SOA =
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>record,=20
>=3D
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>>some MX records and some NS records.  We have several customers that =
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>=3D
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>>would like an A record for the domain name.  So that when some enters =
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>=3D
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>>foo.com in the browser the user would actually get to the web site.  =
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>=3D
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>>Some customers would even like a CNAME record for the domain name, so =
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>=3D
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>>that they could have a primary domain and have other domains CNAME to =
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>=3D
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>>the primary domain.  I have tested this in BIND 9 and it doesn't seem =
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>to=20
>=3D
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>By now you have read the other posts on why the CNAME idea is not going =
>to=20
>work.  However, a work around might be to use a generic zone db file for =
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>all the "like" domains.  This work around only works if all the domains =
>in=20
>question are hosted on the same name server.  Here is a sample generic=20
>zone db file that might work (there is also a recipe for this in =
>Cricket's=20
>Cookbook):
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>;Generic db file for all domain names at web site on IP address=20
>10.10.10.1.
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>$TTL 1d
>@               IN      SOA ns1.foo.com.    postmaster.foo.com. (
>                                2004050701      ;Serial as yyyymmddnn
>                                10800           ;Refresh Interval
>                                3600            ;Retry Interval
>                                604800          ;Expire Timeout
>                                3600)           ;Negetive Caching TTL
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>;Name Servers
>@                               IN      NS     ns1.foo.com.
>@                               IN      NS     ns2.foo.com.
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>;Mail Exchangers
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>;Other Zone Data
>@                               IN      A       10.10.10.1
>www                             IN      CNAME   @
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>hth,
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>Dave...
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>>like the CNAME record for a domain.  I have found very little about =
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>this=20
>=3D
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>>topic on the web so I figured this list could provide me some =
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>direction.
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>>=20
>>Thanks,
>>Preston
>>=20
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