Re: need help in bind9 setup

In article <d3f08d$fh5$1@sf1.isc.org>, Chiang Seng Chang <cs@ctzen.com>
wrote:

> Would these be more correct ?

Yes, except you still need to have more than one nameserver for each
domain.

>
> db.dom-a.com:
>
> $TTL 86400
> dom-a.com. IN SOA ns hostmaster
> (...omitted...)
> IN NS ns
> IN MX 10 mail
> @ IN A 1.2.3.4
> localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
> ns IN A 1.2.3.4
> mail IN A 1.2.3.4
> www IN CNAME @
> foo IN CNAME @
>
>
> db.dom-b.com:
>
> $TTL 86400
> dom-b.com. IN SOA ns.dom-a.com hostmaster.dom-a.com
> (...omitted...)
> IN NS ns.dom-a.com.
> IN MX 10 mail.dom-a.com.
> @ IN A 1.2.3.4
> localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
> www IN CNAME @
>
>
> note. ip 1.2.3.4 is repeat many times (?)

Yes, that happens. Of course, there's no reason why you have to use
different hostnames for the targets of the NS and MX records. You can
do:

IN NS ns
IN MX 10 ns

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