DNS Records
After you create a zone, additional
resource records need to be added to it. The most common resource records (RRs)
to be added are:
Table 5. Record Types
Name
|
Description
|
Host (A)
|
For
mapping a DNS domain name to an IP address used by a computer.
|
Alias
(CNAME)
|
For mapping an alias DNS domain name
to another primary or canonical name.
|
Mail
Exchanger (MX)
|
For mapping a DNS domain, name to
the name of a computer that exchanges or forwards mail.
|
Pointer
(PTR)
|
For mapping a reverse DNS domain
name based on the IP address of a computer that points to the forward DNS
domain name of that computer.
|
Service
location (SRV)
|
For mapping a DNS domain name to a
specified list of DNS host computers that offer a specific type of service,
such as Active Directory domain controllers.
|
|
Other resource records as needed.
|