Resolves hosts, not domain

[Michael Voight]

Well, there is no A record for surrealistic.org.
How can you resolve it without an A record?
What is its address supposed to be??

Well, then create an  A record for it.

Michael

Scott Hunter wrote:
> 
> I have just set up BIND for the 1st time and have one problem before
> everything is working.
> 
> All hosts on my network resolve, but my domain does not.
> For example,
> 
> This works:
> 
> [root at colossus scott]# nslookup colossus.surrealistic.org
> Server:  colossus.surrealistic.org
> Address:  63.224.44.177
> 
> Name:    colossus.surrealistic.org
> Address:  63.224.44.177
> 
> This fails:
> 
> [root at colossus scott]# nslookup surrealistic.org
> Server:  colossus.surrealistic.org
> Address:  63.224.44.177
> 
> *** colossus.surrealistic.org can't find surrealistic.org: Non-existent
> host/domain
> 
> --------------------------------------
> My db.surrealistic file:
> 
> @ IN  SOA colossus.surrealistic.org. root.surrealistic.org. (
>                                 1999090302            ;surreal number
>                                 10800
>                                 3600
>                                 604800
>                                 86400 )
> ;
>   IN  NS  colossus.surrealistic.org.
>   IN  NS  hal.surrealistic.org.
> ;
> localhost            IN  A     127.0.0.1
> colossus             IN  A     63.224.44.177
> mail                 IN  CNAME colossus.surrealistic.org.
> www                  IN  CNAME colossus.surrealistic.org.
> ns1                  IN  CNAME colossus.surrealistic.org.
> colossus             IN  MX    10 colossus.surrealistic.org.
> hal                  IN  A     63.224.44.178
> ns2                  IN  CNAME hal.surrealistic.org.
> hal                  IN  MX    10 hal.surrealistic.org.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Scott