A record for out of zone name

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I was trying to create an A record on my w2k machine
which is pointing to a well known site, e.g.:

wwww.yahoo.com IN A 66.94.230.37

I guess I could crate a CNAME record, but one of my
friends told me that all flavors of DNS servers should
allow this, just create an A record using the fully
qualified domain name and the IP address in any zones
hosted on s DNS server.

I tried this but could not create this A record in any
zone, and finally I have to create a whole zone to make
this possible.

Anyone knows an easier approach?

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP]]

In

I was trying to create an A record on my w2k machine
which is pointing to a well known site, e.g.:

wwww.yahoo.com IN A 66.94.230.37

I guess I could crate a CNAME record, but one of my
friends told me that all flavors of DNS servers should
allow this, just create an A record using the fully
qualified domain name and the IP address in any zones
hosted on s DNS server.

I tried this but could not create this A record in any
zone, and finally I have to create a whole zone to make
this possible.

Anyone knows an easier approach?

Create the zone with the FQDN then put a blank host in the zone is the
correct way.

 

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actually I created a zone with the domain part and then
created an A record uisng host part inside the zone...

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP]]

In

actually I created a zone with the domain part and then
created an A record uisng host part inside the zone...

That is OK so long as the only Yahoo name you want to resolve is
www.yahoo.com.
If you make the zone www.yahoo.com then it won't conflict with other names
like mail.yahoo.com.
Also if you have a mail server it won't be able to send mail to yahoo.com
addresses, unless you mirror all yahoo's MX records in the yahoo.com zone
you created.

 

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Kevin I think you are right on that...

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In ok <[email protected]> posted a question
Then Kevin replied below:
That is OK so long as the only Yahoo name you want to resolve is
www.yahoo.com.
If you make the zone www.yahoo.com then it won't conflict with other names
like mail.yahoo.com.
Also if you have a mail server it won't be able to send mail to yahoo.com
addresses, unless you mirror all yahoo's MX records in the yahoo.com zone
you created.






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