We have our main domain of okstate.edu plus a ton of non-okstate.edu names that we serve because someone purchased the name. Each of these small zones has per haps one or two A records and 99.9% of the time, the A records are redundant A records that are the same as some host on our okstate.edu zone. This is because one appears to need at least 1 A record in a given zone. Example:
If we have orange.com and the server is web27.okstate.edu, I must create an A record for orange.com using web27's IP address rather than using a CNAME record to point to web27. If I try that, we get the error that orange.com has no A record. Is there any kind of dummy A record one can stuff in to a zone which satisfies this requirement such that one can then use aliases or CNAME records for the valid hosts in the zone? What has happened here is that a bunch of servers are moving to a new subnet and, you guessed it, they are festuned with redundant A records for these small zones. It is going to be a lot of manual work to move them over, but I am hoping it is a teachable moment in which there may be a better way to do this so next time, all we do is move addresses and the rest just keeps working. Thanks for any and all suggestions. Martin McCormick _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users