CNAME

[Rodrick Su]

In article <4.2.0.58.19991216172158.0098d9d0 at sti-sun4.simpletech.com>,
Dat Nguyen  <dnguyen at drawbridge3.simpletech.com> wrote:
>Please tell me if anything wrong with the www CNAME below.
>web.mydomain.com is being served by ns3.mydomain.com.
>www.web.mydomain.com is a dynamic record under web.mydomain.com
>(lbnamed).
>I have no problem finding www.mydomain.com using nslookup.  However,
>when I use the browser to get to www.mydomain.com, I get the "Host not Found"
>error message.
>No problem getting www.web.mydomain.com.
>Could this be a proxy problem rather than a DNS problem?
>
>Thanks,
>
>@               IN      SOA     ns1.mydomain.com. root.ns1.mydomain.com.
>(
>                 19981028414     ; SOA serial number
>                 600             ; SOA refresh rate
>                 300             ; SOA retry
>                 3600            ; SOA expire
>                 3600            ; SOA minimum
>)
>                 IN      NS      ns1.mydomain.com.
>                 IN      A       x.x.x.x
>                 IN      NS      ns2.mydomain.com.
>                 IN      A       x.x.x.x
>
>(I deleted most of records to make it short)
>
>web          IN      NS      ns3.mydomain.com.
>                 IN      A       x.x.x.x
>
>www           IN      CNAME   www.web.mydomain.com.
>

You haven't defined www.web.mydomain.com yet.  I believe you want to point
www.mydomain.com to web.mydomain.com, so try this instead...

www		IN	CNAME	web.mydomain.com.
www.web		IN	CNAME	web.mydomain.com.


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[ Rodrick Su       [                                                  ]
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