gives me connection timed out; no servers could be reached

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a0p50n$si8 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Tarek Hamdy <thamdy at quixnet.net> wrote:
>Zone file
>$TTL 86400
>$ORIGIN tarekham.com.
>@ IN SOA ham.tarekham.com. thamdy.ham.tarekham.com (
>                                        2001123002 ; serial
>                                        28800 ; refresh
>                                        7200 ; retry
>                                        604800 ; expire
>                                        86400 ; ttl )

You commented out the close parenthesis.  Change that to:

                                         86400 ) ; ttl

>Reverse Zone
>
>$TTL 86400
>@ IN SOA localhost. root.localhost (
>                                                1 ; serial
>                                                28800 ; refresh
>                                                7200 ; retry
>                                                604800 ; expire
>                                                86400 ; ttk )

Same thing here.

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