Hi,
I have a domain hosted at a third party site called my.domain.com.
In my company's zone file, we have NS records that refer to this third
party hosting site, and we have an 'A' record set up that associates the
my.domain.com domain to the IP address of a load balancer that balances
traffic coming into the site between two web servers, all in a DMZ. We
also have an MX record that refers the my.domain.com to a mail server
host, also in the DMZ. Finally, we have PTR records that refer back to
the load balancer and mail server hosts.
All this is set up correctly, everything works, and all DNS checks pass.
I need to add a subdomain, call it sub.my.domain.com, and I would like
to associate the subdomain to the same load balancer if possible. What
is the best way to do this without disrupting the incoming traffic to
the primary domain or
the flow of incoming SMTP traffic to the mail server? Is it best in
this situation to use a CNAME to map the subdomain, or to use a whole
new 'A' record? If I create a new 'A' record, I would not want to add a
new PTR record for the sub.my.domain.com as the IP address would be the
same as the PTR that refers back to my.domain.com. This I
believe, would cause DNS checks on my mail server to fail, since there
would be two hostnames associated with the same IP address.
Your help is appreciated!
Bill
Dear Colleagues,
In January 2007, RIPE Document ripe-400 was created to address lameness
in the reverse DNS tree. This RIPE Document can be found online at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-400.html
We have been monitoring name servers for some time now and statistics
from the data gathered have been published online each month at:
http://www.ripe.net/info/stats/dns-lameness/
We are now ready to start sending out notifications to the maintainers
of these zones, alerting them to a problem. The e-mail messages will
point to the DNS Lameness FAQs, which explain the possible problems and
give some pointers to help solve them.
The FAQs can be found online at:
http://www.ripe.net/info/stats/dns-lameness/faq.html
Initially, we will send less then 100 e-mails to various contacts. This
number will increase over the following months until all maintainers
with lame servers are contacted.
Kind regards,
Sjoerd Oostdijk
DNS Services Group
The RIPE NCC
