DNS Configuration Problem

[Cricket Liu]

Jonathon <jblake at eskimo.com> wrote in message
news:<7r6e9n$1pn$1 at eskinews.eskimo.com>...
> The problem:
> Using nslookup, I get the following error message
> when looking up "stamp-coin.com"
>
> natal.stamp-coin.com can't find stamp-coin.com: non-existent
> host/domain.

nslookup, by default, looks up address records, and you didn't add an
address record for stamp-coin.com.

If you want one, you can add this to your zone data file:

@    IN    A    209.102.31.164

> Looking up "209.102.31.164" results in the same error message.
> Looking up "natal.stamp-coin.com" gets the 'correct response'.
> [  Mail bounces, with an error message of:
> "Error 551: Read DNS and Bind." ]

Ooh, I like that error message.

cricket

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