Re: Host name not resolved using zone

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From: Daniel Tan (danieltan_at_time.net.my)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: 30 Aug 2004 20:01:37 -0700

So what you suggest is that i need to create 2 zones for each host ,
mail.kobaytech.com and prpo.kobaytech.com ? If i create zone for this
domain , does the caching still works ?

Rgds
Daniel

"Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" <admin@nospam.WFTX.US> wrote in message news:<OGE5#HqjEHA.556@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>...
> In news:6a6a9040.0408300556.6146df2b@posting.google.com,
> Daniel Tan <danieltan@time.net.my> wrote their comments
> Then Kevin replied below:
> > So does dns caching put much loads on the server ?
>
>
> A DNS server can answer from its cache as easily as it can from the zones,
> once it is cached, but when TTL runs out on the cached record it has to go
> resolve it again.
>
> > Currently it have
> > to resolve 2 remote hosts under same domain,
> > mail.kobaytech.com and
> > prpo.kobaytech.com , and i create a zone and under it i
> > create the 2
> > host records. Is this ok ?
>
> If the zone is kobaytech.com with just the two records in it, (mail and
> prpo) then that is the only two names it can resolve in that domain name. It
> won't resolve any other name in that domain name unless you delegate the
> name or add the host records for it.
> If these are the only two host you need to resolve in the domain you should
> probably create zones for the FQDN of the hosts, mail.kobaytech.com and
> prpo.kobaytech.com.
>
>
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