non existent host/domain

[Barry Margolin]

In article <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004262224050.1183-100000 at manatee.mammalia.org>,
R Joseph Wright  <rjoseph at speakeasy.org> wrote:
>
>I just set up a primary dns server using Bind 8 on FreeBSd 4.0.  I also
>just registered my domain, got my secondaries set up with
>granitecanyon.com, etc.  So, I'm set, sort of.  The main problem that is
>happening is I get this when I do 'nslookup mammalia.org':
>
>Server:  localhost.org
>Address:  127.0.0.1
>
>*** localhost.org can't find mammalia.org: Non-existent host/domain

What do you expect this to show?  You don't have an A record for
mammalia.org in db.mammalia.  The only A records you have are for
ns.mammalia.org and manatee.mammalia.org.

>***Here is db.mammalia***
>*************************
>
>; Definition of zone mammalia.org
>mammalia.org.	IN  	SOA  manatee.mammalia.org.  rjoseph.mammalia.org. (
>		2000260401  	;  Serial (date,  2 digit version of day)
>		86400		;  refresh  (1 day)
>		7200		;  retry  (2 hours)
>		8640000		;  expire  (100 days)
>		86400 )		;  minimum  (1 day)
>; Name servers
>		IN	NS	ns
>ns		IN	A	216.231.50.6
>; MX records
>		IN 	MX	10  manatee.mammalia.org.
>; Hosts
>manatee		IN  	A  	216.231.50.6
>; Aliases
>www		IN	CNAME   manatee	
>; System Information
>manatee		IN	HINFO	"AMD K6-2/450"	"FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE"


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