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From: rickert@CS.NIU.EDU (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: hostname == domainname
Message-ID: <199106181711.AA21964@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 91 17:11:25 GMT
References: <24652@natinst.natinst.com>
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In article <24652@natinst.natinst.com> you write:
>     Now, we're going to be joining the internet.  I created a BIND database
>for the "natinst.com" domain to test things out.  There's not a way, in
>this database, to declare "natinst.com" (or rather "natinst.com.") as a host.

  Sure there is.  What is wrong with:

@	IN	A	address info

 and similarly for HINFO, MX or any other records.

>This makes sense; the host "natinst" should be declared in the ".com" database.
>To do this is philosophically illegal, no?  (I.e., have a host right under a
>top-level domain.)

  There is nothing illegal about it.  natinst.com can be the name of a host,
and of a zone (SOA and NS records).  It can also contain other hosts of
the form 'machine.natinst.com' or even 'machine.department.natinst.com'.

  You might prefer to still change your hostname, but there is not compulsion
to do so.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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