Re: Microsoft DNS under NT4 question...
Andras Tudos - Computronic, C3 ( (no email) )
Sun, 15 Jun 1997 11:39:47 +0200
At 23:53 1997.06.14. -0500, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>
> I have a rather simple question that has been driving me nuts. In unix
>flavors of BIND, to set a machine to an A record reflecting the domain, you
>use a null (blank) record.
>
>Wow, that made no sense... ;) let me try to illustrate:
>
>I want a machine, let's call it MACHINE1 to respond to DOMAIN.COM. Not
>MACHINE1.DOMAIN.COM, but DOMAIN.COM. It's trivial in BIND, but doing so in
>M$ DNS causes an error in the error log and generally spits up all over
>itself. How the heck do you do it in M$ DNS?
>
>TIA
>
If using DNS Manager: create an A record without specifying a machine name.
If editing the zone files:
@ IN A x.x.x.x (where x.x.x.x is the IP address of the machine)
Works without any problems.
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Andras Tudos
Computronic, C3 http://tech.c3.hu
Budapest, Hungary http://www.computronic.hu
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