how to allow domain.com as well as www.domain.com ?

[John Navas]

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Mark.Kasper at icn.siemens.com wrote:

>I have been following this thread with interest, trying the suggestions as they
>are presented. It seems we are back to square one. nslookup for domain.com with
>the following configuration results in "hostname.domain.com can't find
>domain.com : Server failed"
>
>hostname.domain.com.    IN   A    <IP Address>
>www.domain.com.     IN  CNAME  hostname.domain.com.
>domain.com.         IN  CNAME <IP address> (as suggested below)
>
>Cricket, did you mean something else?

PMJI, but here's a model of a simple domain that I setup (on a DSL account)
that's working fine (e.g., you can connect to both <http://fakedomain.comm/>
and <http://www.fakedomain.comm/>):

>nslookup
....
>ls -d fakedomain.comm
....
 fakedomain.comm.      SOA    adsl-999-999-999-999.telco.nett joeuser.fakedomain.comm. (17 10800 3600 604800 86400)
 fakedomain.comm.      A      999.999.999.999
 fakedomain.comm.      NS     adsl-999-999-999-999.telco.nett
 fakedomain.comm.      NS     ns1.secondary.comm
 fakedomain.comm.      NS     ns2.secondary.comm
 fakedomain.comm.      MX     0    fakedomain.comm
 *                     MX     0    fakedomain.comm
 ftp                   CNAME  fakedomain.comm
 mail                  CNAME  fakedomain.comm
 pop                   CNAME  fakedomain.comm
 www                   CNAME  fakedomain.comm
 fakedomain.comm.      SOA    adsl-999-999-999-999.telco.nett joeuser.fakedomain.comm. (17 10800 3600 604800 86400)

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Best regards,
John  mailto:jnavas at aimnet.com  http://www.aimnet.com/~jnavas/