Is there a problem with this zone file?

[Kevin Darcy]

CNAMEs can't co-exist with any other record types. You have: 1 SOA, 2 NS
and 1 MX record for "foo.org", so you cannot also have a CNAME with that
owner name. Make it an A record pointing to the address of
"baz.bar.com" instead.


- Kevin

Steve Linberg wrote:

> I'm trying to troubleshoot a zone file that is having a problem.   I
> have a colocation server set up and this domain will be hosted on the
> box, managed as a virtual domain through qmail and apache.
>
> The domain I'm tryint to set up in this example is foo.org; the hosting
> box is baz.bar.com.  The problem I'm having is that while nslookup
> resolves all of the subdomains of foo.org correctly (starting with
> www.foo.org), just plain "foo.org" by itself doesn't resolve.
> (Non-existent host/domain).
>
> Is there anything obviously wrong in here that anybody can see?  bar.com
> resolves fine and is defined with an A record in its own zone file,
> defined earlier from the same named.conf on my box.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> foo.org.       IN      SOA     baz.bar.com. steve.bar.com. (
>                         2000100204      ; Serial
>                         8H              ; Refresh
>                         2H              ; Retry
>                         1W              ; Expire
>                         1D )            ; Minimum
>
>                                 NS              baz.bar.com.
>
> ; These are the colo's DNS IP numbers; they work.
>
>                                 NS              x.x.x.x
>                                 NS              x.x.x.x
>
>                                 MX              10 mail.bar.com.
>
> localhost                       IN      A               127.0.0.1
>
> foo.org.               CNAME   baz.bar.com.
> www.foo.org.           CNAME   baz.bar.com.
> ftp.foo.org.           CNAME   baz.bar.com.
> mysql.foo.org.         CNAME   baz.bar.com.
> preview.foo.org.       CNAME   baz.bar.com.
> webmail.foo.org.       CNAME   baz.bar.com.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Thanks for any tips.