zone file problem

[kirkgbr at yahoo.com]

Pongo wrote:
> Hi all, and sorry for the trivial question, BUT:
> I am not able to make lookup work for a domain instead I use a third
> level domain attached; I will explain better:
>
> to solve example.com I can nslookup ns.example.com, mail.example.com
> (also the CNAME) www.example.com but NOT the only example.com .
> I followed dns howto to build my zona file as below shown:
>
> @  1D IN SOA       ns.examole.com. root.example.com. (
>                                         2005052501
>                                         86400
>                                         30M
>                                         1W
>                                         1D )
> ;
>                         NS              ns
>                         NS              ns1.example.com.
>                         MX      10      mail
> ;
> localhost               A               127.0.0.1
> ns                      A               xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> dns2.nic.it             A               xxx.xxx.xxx.yyy
> mail                    A               xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> ;1                      1D IN PTR       localhost.
> www                     CNAME           ns
>
> --------------------
> in named.conf:
>   zone "example.com" {
>           type master;
>           notify yes;
>           file "example.com";
>   };
>
> ---------------------
>
> Regards,
> Pongo


Make an "A" record for the domain itself.

example.com.               A        xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

regards,