Deniz,
Unless you have a special circumstance, which does not appear to be the
caes, you should have a single DNS infrastructure. This means one DNS system
with primary and secondary zones controlling your DNS domain. It shouldn't
matter the platform that these are on, though I generally wouldn't mix
platforms, just as a maintenance issue.
From there if all hosts are using those servers to look up records, they
should get the same IP information.
The only issue you might run into is a difference in what the Linux clients
expect for e-mail. Some of those systems are set to do reverse lookups
before they will allow connections to the mail syste,
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"Deniz" wrote:
[Quoted Text] > Hi,
>
> I host many websites on Windows 2003 server. Sometimes I am in a
> situation where I need to setup a subdomain that uses a 3rd party
> software (such as a CMS application) that is installed on my Linux
> box. Those two boxes are on totally different networks, and I want
> cms.domain.com works on Linux box while the rest remains same on
> Windows.
>
> >From the interface I was provided for Windows 2003, I have the
> following entries for DNS:
>
> A records:
> domain.com win.box.ip.no
> *.domain.com win.box.ip.no
> ftp.domain.com win.box.ip.no
> cms.domain.com linux.box.ip.no (I want this hosted on the Linux box)
> localhost.domain.com 127.0.0.1
> mail.domain.com mail.server.ip.no
> www.domain.com win.box.ip.no
>
> MX Records:
> mail.domain.com
>
>
> (win.box.ip.no = IP# of the Windows 2003 box, linux.box.ip.no = IP# of
> the Linux box, mail.server.ip.no = IP# of the mail server)
>
> This works fine, no problem. When I define the domain and the
> subdomain on Linux box, it creates similar DNS entries by default:
>
> linux.box.ip.no / 24 PTR domain.com.
> domain.com. NS ns2.linuxboxns.com.
> domain.com. NS ns1.linuxboxns.com.
> domain.com. A linux.box.ip.no
> domain.com. MX (10) mail.domain.com.
> cms.domain.com. A linux.box.ip.no
> mail.domain.com. A mail.server.ip.no (I edited this to make the
> email work)
> webmail.domain.com. A linux.box.ip.no
> www.domain.com. CNAME domain.com.
>
> This works for cms.domain.com but I am not comfortable having some of
> these entries on the Linux box. For starters, other domains on Linux
> box cannot send emails to domain.com (they receive unknown user error,
> even though I have mail.domain.com pointing to correct IP) and I am
> sure there will be other communication problems.
>
> How should I setup the DNS entries on these servers so I can have
> cms.domain.com serving some web pages on Linux box while the rest
> remains on Windows as before without any interference?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Deniz
>
>
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