DNS or IIS question ?

I am a part of a university, and we have a central DNS appliance for outside
resolution. I have just installed an IIS server and i want to know what kind
of record do I need to add so that when people try to hit the website, our
internal DNS knows where to point. Is it an A record, or host record, or are
those two the same, and where does the CNAME come into place.

And how does this conflict with the host record that is already in the DNS
appliace with the name of the computer?

An A record is a host record.

You could use this type of record to point the hostname you want to use for
you website to your server.

A DNS zone can contain multiple host (A) records that point at the same
server.

A CNAME record is an alias record. DNS will supply the IP address of the
FQDN specified when this host name is requested.

This type of record could also be used. E.g., If your server is called
MYSERVER but you want your site hostname to be www. Then set a CNAME for www
to be an alias of MYSERVER.yourdomain.com.

This can be useful if MYSERVER gets it's IP from a DHCP server.

Anthony.

Hence you

"BookerW" wrote:

> I am a part of a university, and we have a central DNS appliance for outside
> resolution. I have just installed an IIS server and i want to know what kind
> of record do I need to add so that when people try to hit the website, our
> internal DNS knows where to point. Is it an A record, or host record, or are
> those two the same, and where does the CNAME come into place.
>
> And how does this conflict with the host record that is already in the DNS
> appliace with the name of the computer?