Static IP resolving in BIND 8.x

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a3ttp3$mh5 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Oliver Neumann <oliver.neumann at newidentity.de> wrote:
>> foobar.com.zone should then look like:
>>
>> @ IN SOA ...
>>      NS @
>>      MX 10 @
>>      A  100.100.100.100
>
>I did that, but this did not work.

Compare your foobar.com.zone with mine.  Notice that I have an A record for
@ (which is an abbreviation for the zone name, foo.foobar.com), but you
don't.  You have an A record named ns.foo.foobar.com and an alias named
foo.foo.foobar.com.  Is that what you wanted?

>-x-x- foobar.com.zone -x-x-
>
>$TTL    3D
>@       IN      SOA     foo.foobar.com. root.foo.foobar.com. (
>                                      2002020601; Serial
>                                      8H        ; Refresh
>                                      2H        ; Retry
>                                      4W        ; Expire
>                                      1D )      ; Minimum
>                NS      @
>                MX      10      @
>
>ns      A       100.100.100.100
>
>foo    CNAME   ns
>
>-x-x- foobar.com.zone -x-x-

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