Search Again: Re: IN CNAME? From: Men & Mice Support Date: Monday, June 5, 2000 Time: 12:04:52 pm It occurs to me that my response was rather terse, explaining what to do without explaining why. There's a traditional DNS shortcut: Any name that doesn't end in a dot gets the origin string appended. The origin string in QuickDNS Pro is always the name of the zone. In BIND, the origin string is user-definable, but defaults to the name of the zone. The original point of this was, if you need to enter a large number of records by hand (especially if you don't have a mouse and don't have copy-and-paste), you don't want to have to retype the name of the domain for every record. The catch was, if you didn't know about the shortcut, you'd enter all your names without dots on the ends, and would end up with a bunch of garbage records. The data was entered in a text editor, which didn't know you were entering DNS records and didn't have any way to know what the origin string was. So you didn't know that everything was wrong until you actually queried your name server. With QuickDNS, we decided to use this traditional shortcut, because even with a mouse and copy-and-paste, it still makes sense. You enter "www" for "www.zone.name.". The difference is, with QuickDNS, you see the zone name appended right away (at least, if your columns are big enough). So anytime you want to enter a name that shouldn't have the zone name appended, end it with a dot. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

Messages In This Thread: IN CNAME? by Eric Prentice on Jun 2, 2000 at 6:33:36 pm Re: IN CNAME? by Men & Mice Support on Jun 2, 2000 at 6:46:28 pm Re: IN CNAME? by Eric Prentice on Jun 3, 2000 at 9:57:00 am Re: IN CNAME? by Jim Brizendine on Jun 5, 2000 at 11:54:16 am Re: IN CNAME? by Men & Mice Support on Jun 5, 2000 at 12:04:52 pm Re: IN CNAME? by Global Homes Webmaster on Jun 5, 2000 at 12:52:00 pm