can't find example.com: Non-existent host/domain

[Kevin Darcy]

Insert an A record directly after your MX record. Like the MX record and the
NS record above it, use leading whitespace as the "name" of the record.

Once you've done that, you could convert "hostname" into an alias for
"example.com", if you wish (so that you have only one record to change in
this file if the box ever gets re-addressed).


- Kevin

Andreas Guther wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I wonder what needs to be set to get the IP address if I make
> just a nslookup on the domain name (example.com) instead on
> hostname.example.com
>
> If I do
>     nslookup hostname.example.com
> I get all the desired information,  if I just do
>     nslookup example.com.
> I get a "can't find example.com: Non-existent host/domain"
>
> My zone file for the domain looks like this:
>
> $TTL 30
> example.com. IN        SOA     hostname.example.com. admin.example.com. (
>                 2001052002      ; Serial number in date format, last two
> digits revision numbers
>                 3h              ; Refresh cycle for slaves
>                 1h              ; Retry cylce length
>                 1w              ; Expire
>                 900 )           ; Negative Cache TTL
> ; Define the name servers
>         NS      hostname .example.com.
> ; Define the mail servers
>         MX      10 hostname .example.com.
> localhost       A       127.0.0.1
> hostname A       xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> ns1     CNAME   hostname .example.com.
> www     CNAME   hostname .example.com.
> news    CNAME   hostname .example.com.
> mail    CNAME   hostname .example.com.
> home    CNAME   hostname .example.com.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Andreas