Can't lookup domain name without adding a .(dot)

[Kevin Darcy]

Well, first of all, you said you were looking up fulldomain.com, but then you
showed the fulldomain.net zonefile (or at least part of it). Was that just
accidental, or did you really mean that the lookup was for the same domain name as
the zonefile?

Secondly, why don't you use real domain names and show *all* of the real
zonefile? There could be a syntax error somewhere which is causing this problem,
and if you "doctor" your zonefile contents for posting to this list, we may never
be able to spot the error.

Lastly, nslookup sucks. Try using a real DNS troubleshooting tool like "dig". Or,
at the very least, use the -debug option of nslookup to see what it's really doing.


- Kevin

boats at sdboats.com wrote:

> Sorry for the dumb question perhaps but I have
> a DNS server that works fine resolving all internal names, however
> when I go to lookup the full domain it fails. ie: nslookup fulldomain.com
> However if i add a (dot) nslookup.fulldomain.com. it works fine.
> I have looked all through and the config files and can't spot any differences
> obviously I am verlooking something. host/domain/ reverse lookups work fine
> just not the primary domain. Any clues?
>
> from my db.domain file:
>
> fulldomain.net.  IN  SOA server.fulldomain.net. root.server.fulldomain.net. (..)
> fulldomain.net. IN  NS  server.fulldomain.net.
>
> then an A record for server further down.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ray