[Gllug] Can I do this with DNS

[Bruce Richardson]

On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 08:47:31PM +0100, Jim wrote:
> Recently I was asked to set up a DNS server on there as well since some
> of the domains are coming to the end of their free two years web and mail
> forwarding deals that came with the purchase of the domain name, I
> presume that these would be C name records?

Well, MX records should never point to CNAMEs and many people prefer not
to use CNAMES at all, because of the problems they can cause.  You can
always just use additional A records instead.

> 
> My question is if I set up Bind 9 as more than a caching server
> (currently as far as I have got) am I going to cause DNS conflicts with
> the current DNS since its A name record points to this IP and bind 9 as
> far as I know needs a SOA file pointing to its self.

If this DNS server is only going to be serving a specific set of boxes
and they use it exclusively then you can put what you like in there as
they'll never see a conflict.  But you haven't really given any
description of the way this is all organised.


-- 
Bruce

You can fool some of the people all the time, you can fool all of
the people some of the time but you can never fool your mother.
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