can't create A record with .com

[Rodrick Su]

In article <s124oc8s5n611 at corp.supernews.com>, "mhenderson" <mhenderson at jcai.com> wrote:
>hi:
>
>already have a working entry for (example) secured-name.com (created by
>previous admin) and trying to create one for secured-names.com.  there are
>discrepancies.  the working entry looks like this:
>
>www.secured-name.com
>
>secured-name.com             SOA     ns1.domain.com, user.domain.com
>secured-name.com             NS        ns1.domain.com
>secured-name.com             A         xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>www                                 A          xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>
>the site i'm trying to create entries for is
>www.secured-names.com (simply pluralized)
>
>what i have showing is:
>
>secured-names.com         SOA     ns1.domain.com, user.domain.com
>secured-names.com         NS        ns1.domain.com
>secured-names                  A          xx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>www                                A          xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>
>note the key difference that theone that works has the added ".com" in its
>first AA record.  don't know how to add that.  if i try to add another
>A-record, it won't allow the ".com" as part of the host name.
>
>clarification:  when i say "works," what i mean is the first one can be
>resolved in Internet Explorer by typing in either
>http://www.secured-name.com or http://secured-name.com while the 2nd one can
>only be resolved by typing in http://www.secured-names.com and bombs without
>the www piece.
>
>interestingly, netscape can resolve http://secured-names.com just fine, but
>i guess that's neither here nor there.
>
>i'm thinking that i created the new domain (zone, whatever) incorrectly.
>
>any ideas?
>
>(i'm dying here)
>


Small thing.  Do you have a "." at the end of your ".com"?  



[ Rodrick Su       [                                                  ]
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