Re: Microsoft DNS under NT4 question...

Jason Hess ( jjhess@laf.cioe.com )
Mon, 16 Jun 1997 09:12:34 -0400

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Gregory W. Bondy 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
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Ahhh, if this is what I think it is it took me a week to figure
out. Instead of adding a new host, choose "Add Record". Add an A record
and leave the host blank. Simply type in the IP address of the machine
you want to respond to domain.com...pretty tricky.

Jason Hess
CIOE Corporation

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