dns question

[Bradley J. Bartram]

For the sake of discussion say the ip address of your www server is 
192.168.20.2  what you would do is set, in your zone file, a line like this:

@	IN	A	192.168.20.2

after your start of authority section.  Then in your server name space in the 
zone file, declare your servers:

www		A	192.168.20.2

Here is a zone file that works like that:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
$TTL 10800
@       IN      SOA     web.somedomain.com. admin.somedomain.com. (
                2002032600 ; Serial
                7200 ; Refresh
                3600 ; Retry
                604800 ; Expire
                10800) ; Minimum
                NS      ns1.somedomain.com.
                NS      ns2.somedomain.com.
                MX      5       mail.somedomain.com.
@       IN      A       192.168.20.2

www          A       192.168.20.2
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hope that helps.

Now if you are using name based resolution on your web server you will 
probably have to do some other configs but this is assuming a DNS only 
solution.

brad

On Wednesday 19 June 2002 12:19 pm, Darin Perusich wrote:
> hello all,
>
> i have a dns problem that i'm trying to resolv, ;) and i'm not getting
> anywhere. i'm looking to setup my dns servers to resolve
> www.cognigencorp.com and cognigencorp.com to the same machine.
>
> i've tried the following record to my zone files thinking it should work.
>
> cognigencorp.com.
> IN
> CNAME
> webserver
>
> and
>
> @
> IN
> CNAME
> webserver
>
> both of these statements fail, but then again they are the same as far
> as bind is concerned.
>
> has anyone setup their dns to resolve in such a fashion?