single entry to hosted service

[Kevin Darcy]

Can't you just add something to your _own_ DNS, pointing to the external 
IP address, and have your clients use that name?

It would pretty ridiculous if a) the server code of the app actually 
cares what name the client uses for accessing it, b) they mandate that 
their (<-- note spelling of word) customers use a name in *the*vendor's* 
domain to access the app, c) had a different name for each customer, but 
d) couldn't be bothered adding the name for each customer to their own 
domain. Essentially, they'd be forcing all of their customers to kludge 
their DNS (or to use something even less manageable, like WINS or local 
hosts-file entries).

                                                                         
                                                            - Kevin

Dan Letkeman wrote:
> Yes I do need some kind of dns configuration.  We bought a hosted
> accounting service from a company that has asked us to put a dns entry
> into our dns servers so that our internal machines only can resolve
> there hosted service via dns.  I guess they don't want to populate
> there isp's dns servers with all of the dns entries for all of there
> customers....
>
> So with my limited knowledge of bind (using webmin to configure it) I
> need to make an entry like this:
>
> 222.222.222.222  A  hosted.accounting.com
>
> In our internal DNS servers.
>
> I don't have any "internet side" dns, just internal.  I'm just a bit
> unsure on what the best way to do this is, and I don't want to have to
> append everyone's hosts file on there workstations.  I have many
> master zones for our internal systems, and I have created all of the
> nessesary records.  I have setup slave servers, and the whole bit.
>
> So i'm wondering do I need to setup a master zone, and put in the
> 222.222.222.222 A hosted.accounting.com as an A record, and then have
> the zone forward everything else?  Reason being is because our users
> will still need to access other sites from the accounting company's
> domain.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Dan.
>
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Kevin Darcy <kcd at chrysler.com> wrote:
>   
>> Dan Letkeman wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I need to add an entry in our dns servers for a hosted service we
>>> purchased.  Do I just add a master zone and a single entry?  Or is
>>> there a better way to add a single entry to forward to a remote
>>> server?
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Maybe I'm not understanding your requirements. If this hosted service uses a
>> name that's already populated in the Internet-facing DNS, why do you need
>> any special DNS configuration at all? Why can't you resolve this like you
>> resolve any other Internet name?
>>
>> Assuming that you _do_ in fact need some special configuration, for some
>> reason, the zone types for (non-root) zones in BIND are: master, slave,
>> forward, and stub. Each of them has benefits and disadvantages, but I'll
>> defer that discussion until and unless it's determined that you need a
>> special DNS configuration at all...
>>
>> - Kevin
>>
>>
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