[NTLUG:Discuss] dns question - how to assign an address to foo.com

[Greg Edwards]

David Camm wrote:
> 
> this would work just fine id all the domains i were defining were
> domains above foo.com - perhaps i ddin;t make that clear. as a web
> developer/hoster, i run dns for many domains which do not have the same
> origin as my domain.
> 
> hence my soa records tend to look like:
> 
> foo.com. IN SOA ns.advwebsys.com admin.advwebsys.com. ......
> 

Someone correct me if I'm wrong here but I don't think multiple SOA
records are valid within a single zone file?

The better way to get from here to there would be to build multiple zone
files.  You can run as many zones as you want (at least I don't know of
any limits) on a single DNS server.  Each zone contains 1 SOA and they
can all be the same,

  @    IN    SOA   ns.advwebsys.com. admin.advwebsys.com. (
                   ........
                   )

Each zone can use the same name server and mail server as well.  I don't
think you can get a good zone transfer out of trying to service multiple
zones from a single zone file like your talking about here.

-- 
Greg Edwards
New Age Software, Inc.
http://www.nas-inet.com