Distributed Name Service (DNS) Management Operations Manual

How to Define DNS Names
Building and Modifying the DNS Database
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DNSCOM_INFO GROUP CAL, EXPLODE
CAL
DOMAIN LOCAL
MEMBERS
SCAL : GROUP
BURBANK : COMPOSITE (ATM)
LA : COMPOSITE (ATM)
SF : COMPOSITE (ATM)
DNSCOM_
Specific Characteristics for GROUP Names
Specific characteristics for group definitions are the same as those listed under
“Specific Characteristics for ALIAS Names.”
Defining Domains As defined in Section 2, a domain is a collective name for a set of network nodes.
These nodes, which each contain a name’s definition, are collectively referred to as the
name’s domain. Nodes that are not included in the name’s domain do not know about
the name at all.
When you add a domain definition, you specify the following:
The domain name
A list of network nodes that you want to belong to the domain
A domain name must be unique on the node where it is defined; however, two
domains with different names can represent the same set of nodes.
If you later define a new subsystem-object name to DNS or modify an existing object
name definition, you simply include the domain name in the definition, and DNS
automatically replicates the definition to the appropriate nodes. Only alias, composite,
and group names can be replicated.