mail at domain failure, www: A or CNAME?, and name lookup failure.

[Tony Rall]

In article <7o53du$3es$1 at ubu.cad.gatech.edu>,
Jason Price <gt5076c at cad.gatech.edu> wrote:
>ourdomain.com.                      IN  A     leia.ourdomain.com.

That's not a valid A record; an A record has an address on the right
(where you have a name).  And, as Barry recently reminded me, you
can't use a CNAME record instead when the name you're defining is the
zone name.

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Tony Rall