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

[David Camm]

greg - i'm sorry if what i wrote seemed incorrect, there are NOT
multiple soa records in a single db file. that is an absolute no-no and
i'd never be able to get the dns started at all.....

Greg Edwards wrote:
> 
> 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
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