Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-12 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 11.09.14 13:14, Bob Harold wrote: In reference to the question of using a CNAME or A record for www.example.com, it seems to me that the best solution, if we could ever get there, would be to create a new record type that means redirect an A or lookup to this other name. Like this:

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-11 Thread Mark Elkins
On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 18:13 -0400, Kevin Darcy wrote: No, what I'm saying is that if example.com owns an A record 203.0.113.48, and www.example.com owns an A record 203.0.113.48, then where does 48.113.0.203.in-addr.arpa point? Some people will point it at example.com, some will point

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-11 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 10.09.14 18:13, Kevin Darcy wrote: No, what I'm saying is that if example.com owns an A record 203.0.113.48, and www.example.com owns an A record 203.0.113.48, then where does 48.113.0.203.in-addr.arpa point? Completely your decision. Some people will point it at example.com, some will

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-11 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: If you point www CNAME @, the 'www' will have both MX and NS records same as example.com. Which may e.g. cause rejectd on backup MX hosts, apparently not designed to receive mail for www.example.com. Actually no. All other RRs are supposed

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-11 Thread Sam Wilson
In article mailman.892.1410364699.26362.bind-us...@lists.isc.org, Alan Clegg a...@clegg.com wrote: On 9/10/14, 8:42 AM, Sam Wilson wrote: And you could reduce maintenance very slightly by replacing www in A 75.100.245.133 with www in

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-11 Thread Sam Wilson
In article mailman.902.1410422525.26362.bind-us...@lists.isc.org, Antonio Querubin t...@lavanauts.org wrote: On Thu, 11 Sep 2014, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: If you point www CNAME @, the 'www' will have both MX and NS records same as example.com. Which may e.g. cause rejectd on backup

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-11 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 9/11/2014 3:47 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 10.09.14 18:13, Kevin Darcy wrote: No, what I'm saying is that if example.com owns an A record 203.0.113.48, and www.example.com owns an A record 203.0.113.48, then where does 48.113.0.203.in-addr.arpa point? Completely your decision.

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-11 Thread Kevin Darcy
Mark, Depending on implementation, a PTR RRset with multiple records either -- only ever gets answered with the first record of the set (in which case the second and subsequent records of the set are just a waste of space), or -- answers in a random, cyclic and/or round-robin

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-11 Thread Mark Elkins
On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 11:27 -0400, Kevin Darcy wrote: Mark, Depending on implementation, a PTR RRset with multiple records either -- only ever gets answered with the first record of the set (in which case the second and subsequent records of the set are just a waste of space),

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-11 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 9/11/2014 3:47 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 10.09.14 18:13, Kevin Darcy wrote: No, what I'm saying is that if example.com owns an A record 203.0.113.48, and www.example.com owns an A record 203.0.113.48, then where does 48.113.0.203.in-addr.arpa point? Completely your decision.

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-11 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 9/11/2014 12:08 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 9/11/2014 3:47 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 10.09.14 18:13, Kevin Darcy wrote: No, what I'm saying is that if example.com owns an A record 203.0.113.48, and www.example.com owns an A record 203.0.113.48, then where does

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-11 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 9/11/2014 12:08 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: we both also said it's personal preference. On 11.09.14 12:53, Kevin Darcy wrote: And I'm saying that's a cop-out. It should be a recommended practice encouraging consistent forward/reverse mappings is something that all DNS admins have

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-11 Thread Bob Harold
In reference to the question of using a CNAME or A record for www.example.com, it seems to me that the best solution, if we could ever get there, would be to create a new record type that means redirect an A or lookup to this other name. Like this: example.com. IN SOA example.com.

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-11 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 9/11/2014 11:51 AM, Mark Elkins wrote: On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 11:27 -0400, Kevin Darcy wrote: Mark, Depending on implementation, a PTR RRset with multiple records either -- only ever gets answered with the first record of the set (in which case the second and subsequent records

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-11 Thread Thomas Schulz
On 9/11/2014 11:51 AM, Mark Elkins wrote: On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 11:27 -0400, Kevin Darcy wrote: Mark, Depending on implementation, a PTR RRset with multiple records either -- only ever gets answered with the first record of the set (in which case the second and subsequent

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-11 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 5411bdd6.4010...@chrysler.com, Kevin Darcy writes: (Yes, I'm aware that there was a proposal recently discussed on the DNSOP list for an MX-target convention to denote no mail service offered here. That would presumably solve the problem I cited in the previous paragraph. But

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-10 Thread Thomas Schulz
Hi, xxx.com and IP address 192.168.1.100 is just a example domain name and IP address. Our boss want everybody access our domain example.com through browser, then it will redirect to our web site www.example.com. So I want to get more information about unexpected impact when we changed DNS

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-10 Thread Sam Wilson
In article mailman.890.1410357943.26362.bind-us...@lists.isc.org, sch...@adi.com (Thomas Schulz) wrote: Hi, xxx.com and IP address 192.168.1.100 is just a example domain name and IP address. Our boss want everybody access our domain example.com through browser, then it will redirect

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-10 Thread Alan Clegg
On 9/10/14, 8:42 AM, Sam Wilson wrote: And you could reduce maintenance very slightly by replacing www in A 75.100.245.133 with www in CNAME @ And now you have an MX record, 3 NS records and a bunch of other crap associated with the WWW

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-10 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 9/10/14, 8:42 AM, Sam Wilson wrote: And you could reduce maintenance very slightly by replacing www in A 75.100.245.133 with www in CNAME @ On 10.09.14 08:58, Alan Clegg wrote: And now you have an MX record, 3 NS records and a bunch of other

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-10 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 9/10/2014 11:58 AM, Alan Clegg wrote: On 9/10/14, 8:42 AM, Sam Wilson wrote: And you could reduce maintenance very slightly by replacing www in A 75.100.245.133 with www in CNAME @ And now you have an MX record, 3 NS records and a bunch of other

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-10 Thread Alan Clegg
On 9/10/14, 2:13 PM, Kevin Darcy wrote: On 9/10/2014 11:58 AM, Alan Clegg wrote: On 9/10/14, 8:42 AM, Sam Wilson wrote: And you could reduce maintenance very slightly by replacing www in A 75.100.245.133 with www in CNAME @ And now you have an

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-10 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 9/10/2014 5:20 PM, Alan Clegg wrote: On 9/10/14, 2:13 PM, Kevin Darcy wrote: On 9/10/2014 11:58 AM, Alan Clegg wrote: On 9/10/14, 8:42 AM, Sam Wilson wrote: And you could reduce maintenance very slightly by replacing www in A 75.100.245.133 with www

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-10 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
Hey Kevin, This is not an issue at all. A PTR is different then a A record and can be used by two reverse domain names and only the owner of the IP addresses space can define them. I am not sure if two PTR records for two domains will be applied to one IP but it is possible for two IP

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-10 Thread Kevin Darcy
No, what I'm saying is that if example.com owns an A record 203.0.113.48, and www.example.com owns an A record 203.0.113.48, then where does 48.113.0.203.in-addr.arpa point? Some people will point it at example.com, some will point it at www.example.com. What you get is a mish-mosh. No

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-10 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
Well this is a confusing point but it's rather an administrative decision to make. If indeed the network\server\domain administrator is not aware of his services he will either have or will not have decision to make. It will depend on whether he knows what he is doing. Mish-mosh or banana he

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-09 Thread Pete Fong
Hi Kevin, Thanks for your help. Do not worry. The IP address 192.168.1.100 is just for example. Best Regards, Pete Fong 2014-09-09 3:30 GMT+08:00 Kevin Darcy k...@chrysler.com: Based on the zone contents below, you shouldn't have any problem changing the 192.168.1.100 address to anything

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-09 Thread Pete Fong
Hi, xxx.com and IP address 192.168.1.100 is just a example domain name and IP address. Our boss want everybody access our domain example.com through browser, then it will redirect to our web site www.example.com. So I want to get more information about unexpected impact when we changed DNS

A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-08 Thread Pete Fong
Hi Everybody, The below item is our DNS (BIND) server configuration. our Domain* xxx.com http://xxx.com *is assigned IP address 192.168.1.100 which is our one of DNS server. Can we change it to our web server IP address ? Because we want anybody access our domain *xxx.com http://xxx.com* with

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-08 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 08.09.14 15:43, Pete Fong wrote: Subject: A record of domain name must be name server ? no. The below item is our DNS (BIND) server configuration. our Domain* xxx.com http://xxx.com *is assigned IP address 192.168.1.100 which is our one of DNS server. Can we change it to our web server IP

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-08 Thread Pete Fong
- fantomas uh...@fantomas.sk: On 08.09.14 15:43, Pete Fong wrote: Subject: A record of domain name must be name server ? no. The below item is our DNS (BIND) server configuration. our Domain* xxx.com http://xxx.com *is assigned IP address 192.168.1.100 which is our one of DNS server

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-08 Thread Barry Margolin
In article mailman.871.1410167955.26362.bind-us...@lists.isc.org, Pete Fong petefong2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Matus UHLAR - fantomas, Sorry, I do not understand the meaning of It could only issue a problem if you pointed example.com. NS example.com. or similar MX etc records. Do you mind

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-08 Thread /dev/rob0
On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 03:43:22PM +0800, Pete Fong wrote: The below item is our DNS (BIND) server configuration. our Domain* xxx.com I think that is a porn site. If you mean to use that name as an example, please use example.com instead. Putting HTTP links to pornography in your emails is

Re: A record of domain name must be name server ?

2014-09-08 Thread Kevin Darcy
Based on the zone contents below, you shouldn't have any problem changing the 192.168.1.100 address to anything you want. But, of course, the zone is illegal because it only has 1 NS record published at the apex (there is a strict minimum of at least 2), and, as it stands now, if it is an