Newbie Question

[Paul Guba]

Barry
Thanks for you earlier post  you were absolutely right.  I have added 
that A record and now nslookup mydomain.com works.  I still cannot 
nslookup www.mydomain.com.   Does there need to be a seperate record for 
<www> that I do not know of?  Sorry if this seems like a dumb question 
I'm just trying to wrap my brain around this stuff.

P Guba
On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 11:09 AM, Barry Margolin wrote:

> In article <a8r5pv$ksl at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
> Paul Guba  <paulguba at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> OK so I have set up the DNS based on the examples in DNS and Bind book.
>> I'm able to nslookup all the computers in my domain.  Not many just 
>> four
>> computers and a router.  All the names resolve to to the IP addresses
>> and vice versa.  However if I do nslookup mydomain.com, nslookup
>> www.mydomain.com I get the dreaded can't find message.  Based on the
>> book I can't find out what I'm doing wrong.  I am running Bind 8.2.3-1
>> on YDL Linux.
>
> Sounds like you created A records for all the <name>.<yourdomain> 
> entries,
> but no A record for just <yourdomain>.  What did you expect it to do 
> when
> you asked it to look up something you didn't enter?
>
> --
> Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
> Genuity, Woburn, MA
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