[PLUG] RE: Re: Internal DNS
Ed Sawicki
ed at alcpress.com
Mon Mar 29 21:11:02 UTC 2004
Keith Morse wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Chris Penwell wrote:
>
>
>>>Is there a way to serve "domainless" name resolution so that a host
>>>"foo" can resolve to an address or do I use a domain zonefile and rely
>>>on the "search" parameter of the clients to add the domain name?
>>
>>the only domainless way I'm aware of is thru host files and keeping them
>>up to date is problematic.
Creating "domainless" names in DNS is easy. I created the names
moe, larry, and curly on a DNS server. Here's the results with
the unimportant parts of the dig output snipped:
# dig @ns1.alcpress.com moe.
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; moe, type = A, class = IN
;; ANSWER SECTION:
moe. 1H IN A 208.151.249.202
# dig @ns1.alcpress.com larry.
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; larry, type = A, class = IN
;; ANSWER SECTION:
larry. 1H IN A 208.151.249.203
# dig @ns1.alcpress.com curly.
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; curly, type = A, class = IN
;; ANSWER SECTION:
curly. 1H IN A 208.151.249.204
Of course, this is the easy part. The harder part is convincing
your DNS resolver that a name like "moe" is fully-qualified
and not in need of "fixing". Sometimes, the RFCs are a curse.
Any chance of getting y'all in one of my DNS classes?
Ed
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