Re: DNS Question

2009-10-28 Thread DAve
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 23, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: You aren't supposed to use CNAMES for anything found in other RR's; in particular, you should always use an A record with the hostnames used for nameservers (ie, have an NS record), because you are supposed to be using

Re: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
DAve wrote: Good morning. I have been asked by my co-workers and sales why I always create a A record for new domains we host instead of a CNAME. The issue I run into lately with some domains is that a client has a website with a industry host such as frank.relator.com and he wants to have

Re: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread DAve
Sean Cavanaugh wrote: Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:30:08 -0400 From: dave.l...@pixelhammer.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: DNS Question Good morning. I have been asked by my co-workers and sales why I always create a A record for new domains we host instead of a

Re: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread Len Conrad
All true, and I did not do a very good job of explaining it. My issue was that we have requests to use a CNAME for the domain record. Such as this. example.com CNAME otherdomain.com www.example.com CNAME otherdomain.com I was taught this was not good form worse, it's illegal. , but

RE: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread Len Conrad
All true, and I did not do a very good job of explaining it. My issue was that we have requests to use a CNAME for the domain record. Such as this. example.com CNAME otherdomain.com www.example.com CNAME otherdomain.com I was taught this was not good form worse, it's illegal. how

Re: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Oct 23, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: worse, it's illegal. how is this illegal? if you are residing your domain on a hosting service, this makes sense to me. Granted its bad form and should have an A record to the host for the main domain record, but if i had control

RE: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
how is this illegal? CNAME rule: a node with a CNAME cannot contain any other records. for the node domain.tld: domain.tld. soa ... domain.tld. ns ... domain.tld. cname otherdomain.tld. this node has a CNAME and other data, so it's illegal, no matter what you want to do, or

Re: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Oct 23, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: worse, it's illegal. how is this illegal? if you are residing your domain on a hosting service, this makes sense to me. Granted its bad form and should have an A record to the host for the main domain record, but

Re: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 23, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: You aren't supposed to use CNAMES for anything found in other RR's; in particular, you should always use an A record with the hostnames used for nameservers (ie, have an NS record), because you are supposed to be using the canonical name

Re: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread xSAPPYx
Also, MX needs to resolve to an A, not a CNAME.. If you are using mail on all these domains, use A records On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Sean Cavanaugh millenia2...@hotmail.com wrote: how is this illegal? CNAME rule: a node with a CNAME cannot contain any other records. for the node

Re: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread RW
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:33:07 -0700 xSAPPYx xsap...@gmail.com wrote: Also, MX needs to resolve to an A, not a CNAME.. If you are using mail on all these domains, use A records You can use the domains for mail provided that that they share MX servers, if example.com has a CNAME pointing to

Re: DNS Question

2008-03-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 国徽 wrote: Hello, I am building the DNS Server,But I can't find the script /etc/namedb/make-localhost used in the document, So I can't go on now? Please tell me how to find the script,Thank you very much! Unfortunately the documentation

Re: DNS Question

2008-03-05 Thread David Alanis
Hi Erik: I don't recall the how-to explaining the usage of this script. I too, just recently setup a DNS server for a couple domains. My recommendation is to familiarize yourself with the Administrators Reference Manual (ARM) on BIND's website: http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/arm93/

Re: dns question

2005-01-20 Thread Dick Davies
* Jeff MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0157 12:57]: Not really a freebsdquestion specifically. My company uses ns.foo.com and ns1.foo.com for primay/secondary dns, about 200 domains rely on these. We want a new physical machine , in a different location, with a different IP to be our

Re: dns question

2005-01-20 Thread Jeff MacDonald
I think it depends upon the registrar. Of the 200 domains, they are probably registered across 2 or 3 registrars. Some ask for just the host name, while others ask for both hostname and IP. Jeff. On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:14:01 +, Dick Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Jeff MacDonald [EMAIL

Re: DNS question...

2003-08-19 Thread Supote Leelasupphakorn
Hi, Have you try host command ? host your_server_name Maybe DNS takes a couple day for propagation. If this is the case try later in next 2-3 days. Cheers, --- Xpression [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I'm getting a problem with my DNS, I'm running 4.7 + named, the config files are

Re: DNS question...

2003-06-05 Thread Jez Hancock
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:29:29PM -0400, Xpression wrote: Hi list: I want to change my DNS server/service, I still using named almost understand it so good, then I want to know is anyone have knowledge of any other DNS server that can be installed to serve DNS requests...thanks...

Re: DNS question

2003-02-01 Thread Bill Moran
[please wrap you lines at 72 characters or so] aSe wrote: When a person does a dns lookup to the server and its not already cached, how does It find out the correct name server to use to find the ip? FreeBSD comes with a list of root DNS servers. These are master servers maintained by many

Re: DNS question

2003-02-01 Thread Len Conrad
When a person does a dns lookup to the server and its not already cached, how does It find out the correct name server to use to find the ip? The DNS navigates the DNS namespace until it finds a positive or negative answer, or the until DNS's that should have the answer fail to respond. Len

RE: DNS question

2003-02-01 Thread Len Conrad
Ahh okay, I understand that. Someone once told me the information is already downloaded in a list, so the server doesn't have to contact root all the time to get ns information. Is this not true anymore? bind9 has the root-servers hints zone in its binary, but will use an external hints zone