RE: [Aspdns-users] Adding A records to a subdomain...

[Ricardo P. <ric...@em...>]

hey tim,

i've been able to create a DNS record of the format:

xxxx.domain.com

the way to do this is to add a new "host" to an existing "zone".  so, if you
have the zone "mydomain.com", and you want something like
"customer1234.mydomain.com", then you would add a new host to "mydomain.com"
by doing the following:

dns.AddHost("mydomain.com", "customer1234" , "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx",
"yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy", vRes2)

the "x's" IP address would be the IP of the domain
"customer1234.mydomain.com" and the "y's" IP address would be the IP of the
DNS server machine, usually localhost (or maybe it's vice versa - please
check the docs to make sure).

my problem is that i want to dynamically create a DNS record of the format:

"www.customer1234.mydomain.com"

because there's an extra level of "dot's", i ran into the problem.  if you
do this manually using the DNS manager in Win2K, you would add a "domain"
under the "zone".  so, if my "zone" is "mydomain.com", i would have to add a
"domain" under that "zone" and NOT a "host".  the domain i would create
would be called "customer1234" under the zone "mydomain.com".  finally,
under that domain, i would create the host "www".  in the end, it would
effectively create the url:

"http://www.customer1234.mydomain.com"

unfortunately, i have tried many ways to do this dynamically and have run
into roadblocks each time.  you should be able to do what you want Tim, as
long as you're not going beyond that second "dot".  if anyone can figure
THIS one out, please let me know.

ricky



-----Original Message-----
From: asp...@li...
[mailto:asp...@li...]On Behalf Of Tim van
den Hoff
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 8:31 AM
To: asp...@li...
Subject: [Aspdns-users] Adding A records to a subdomain...


Hello Everybody,

I'm trying to accomplish this:

I have a subdomain made in the regular DNS manager from
win2k: clients.domain.com and I want all of my clients to get
a hostname based on their IPs. So I get their IPs, replace
some characters and append the string till I get:
xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.clients.domain.com
Now, I want to add this hostname with the corresponding IP
address to the zone. Basically this is just adding an A
record, but somehow the component or the dnscmd executable
won't process it.

I feared it might be because the
component lacks support for subdomains....

Anybody, clue? hint? solution *hopes*?

Regards,
Tim van den Hoff



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