SOA Address

[mjpearson]

I've been reading up on DNS. Very interesting. I'd like to deploy but I'm confused. From what I've read, I'm supposed to insert my e-mail address however, I'm supposed to substitue "." for "@" HOWEVER, my e-mail address has a "." in the account part of the address:

mike.somone@somewhere.com

What is the proper way to get around the first "." problem?


m.j.p.

 

[Wishdiak]

mjpearson,

In your SOA record, the RNAME should specify an email address. The format expected would be mike.someone.somewhere.com for the email address above.

Wishdiak
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[mjpearson]

Thanks Wishdiak,

The book that I've read would says:

"The second name is the mail address of the person in charge of the zone if you replace the FIRST "." with an "@".

If I replace the first "." with "@" I get:

mike@someone.somewhere.com

Thus my confusion.



mike

 

[Wishdiak]

mjpearson,

Althoug the RNAME field in a SOA record is required, typically this is only used for contacting the person responsible for maintaining the DNS records. Usually hostmaster@domain.tld is used here, with forwarding set up from hostmaster to a mailbox belonging to a user. I suppose if you really need to put a valid email address here, you could always set up a free one at Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, etc.

Wishdiak
A+, Network+, Security+, MCSA: Security 2003

http://www.wishdiak.com

 

[mjpearson]

Thanks,

I guess I'll use the normal convension and assume that people will be able to figure it out when the first e-mail message bounces.

Thanks,


mike

 

[ChrisAC]

Why not set up an alias to your email box and then use something like hostmaster.domain.com in the SOA? Makes you sounds more important

Chris.

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Chris A.C, CCNA, CCSA
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[mjpearson]

Actually, this is a covert activity. I don't want the corporate IT police to figure it out so, I can't ask them for the e-mail alias. They try to control each and every aspect of the corporate network. The famous one-size-fits-all strategy for the corporpation. They work in a white-collar enviroment. I work in a blue-collar environment. The needs of both tend to collide and I end up losing.

I have a DEC Alpha machine (VMS). I'm allowed to allocate a range of local static IP addresses. I can never remember the addresses of the various pieces of equipment so I want to setup a local BIND server on the Alpha machine. I can point a few machines to the new BIND server and retrieve the information as I need it. I'll make my life just so much easier.

Keep your eyes open, I may be placed on the Corporate-IT "10 most wanted" list.


mike