Resolves hosts, not domain
Joseph S D Yao
jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Fri Sep 3 23:55:05 UTC 1999
> I have just set up BIND for the 1st time and have one problem before
> everything is working.
>
> All hosts on my network resolve, but my domain does not.
> For example,
>
> This works:
>
> [root at colossus scott]# nslookup colossus.surrealistic.org
> Server: colossus.surrealistic.org
> Address: 63.224.44.177
>
> Name: colossus.surrealistic.org
> Address: 63.224.44.177
>
> This fails:
>
> [root at colossus scott]# nslookup surrealistic.org
> Server: colossus.surrealistic.org
> Address: 63.224.44.177
>
> *** colossus.surrealistic.org can't find surrealistic.org: Non-existent
> host/domain
>
> --------------------------------------
> My db.surrealistic file:
>
>
> @ IN SOA colossus.surrealistic.org. root.surrealistic.org. (
> 1999090302 ;surreal number
> 10800
> 3600
> 604800
> 86400 )
> ;
> IN NS colossus.surrealistic.org.
> IN NS hal.surrealistic.org.
> ;
> localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
> colossus IN A 63.224.44.177
> mail IN CNAME colossus.surrealistic.org.
> www IN CNAME colossus.surrealistic.org.
> ns1 IN CNAME colossus.surrealistic.org.
> colossus IN MX 10 colossus.surrealistic.org.
> hal IN A 63.224.44.178
> ns2 IN CNAME hal.surrealistic.org.
> hal IN MX 10 hal.surrealistic.org.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Scott
This is all absolutely correct. You're fine! [Except for the lack of
a $TTL before your SOA. And do you have reverse DNS?]
The domain name neither has nor needs an A record, which is what
'nslookup' looks up by default. Try, instead:
nslookup -type=any surrealistic.org
If you are one of these types who, for seem reason I can't yet
understand, feel they need to address some specific server in their
domain by their domain name, you could add an "A" record for your
domain name pointing to that server's IP address.
--
Joe Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
COSPO/OSIS Computer Support EMT-B
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