Getting Top Level Domain to work?

[Michael Kjorling]

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How can you do that? It seems like an error to me that the one and
only name server mentioned in the zone file does not have a
corresponding A RR. Oh, perhaps you cut the file down? Don't do that
unless it is clearly unnecessary records - and if you do, indicate so
in your post. (Also, obfuscating IPs can do quite a bit of harm as
well when it comes to debugging problems - then again it doesn't
matter in this case, but may do in the next one you post about.)

Anyway you just add a A record just like you did with WWW. E.g.:

@ A 10.1.1.18

You may have to set up your web server appropriately. Ask your vendor
or in the appropriate news group for help with that
(comp.protocols.dns.bind is _not_ an appropriate newsgroup for that
kind of questions).


Michael Kjörling


On Dec 11 2001 09:03 -0800, peter826 wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Hope this question makes sense.  I'm trying to get a new domain to
> work.  Registered the domain reads4teens.org with dotster (a teen
> reading site).  I am running primary DNS on site (bind from linux).  I
> have set up a zone file for the new domain:
>
> @	IN	SOA 	atacama.carmel.lib.in.us. hostmaster.reads4teens.org. (
> 			2001120501	; serial
> 			8H		; refresh, seconds
> 			2H		; retry, seconds
> 			1W		; expire, seconds
> 			1D )		; minimum, seconds
> ;
> 		NS	atacama		; inet address of name server
> ;
> localhost	A	127.0.0.1
> www		A	10.1.1.18
>
>
> I can resolve www.reads4teens.org (internally with the dummy address)
> and things work OK.  What I really want to be able to do, though, is
> simply access reads4teens.org WITHOUT the www on the front end.
>
> What kind of record do I place in my zone file to make that work?
> Thanks so much.

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