non existent host/domain

[R Joseph Wright]

On 27 Apr 2000, Barry Margolin wrote:

> 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.

You mean I'm supposed to create an A record for my zone?  None of the
configurations I've looked at have anything like that.  What if I had more
than one nameserver on different machines with different addresses?  Would
each of those also have an A record for the zone with its own address?

Since the zone is already implied on the left side of the A record entry,
would it look something like this?:
			IN	A	216.231.50.6
I'm probably missing something totally obvious, but this just seems a bit
weird. 

> >***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"
> 
> 
> -- 
> Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
> Genuity, Burlington, MA
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