Problem with secondary DNS from primary DNS (WIN2K)

[Kevin Darcy]

That zone file looks fine. It should resolve both www.absoluteanime.com
and absoluteanime.com to 66.47.240.92. In fact, both of those resolve
corrently on the Internet right now.


- Kevin

Gary Smith wrote:

> We currently have our primary DNS server on a Windows 2000 box.  Out
> goal is to hide this Win2K box behind the firewall have two seperate
> Linux boxes perform all of the DNS services.
>
> One of our customers sites (www.absoluteanime.com) uses
> www.absoluteanime.com and absoluteanime.com.  Under Win2K this is not
> a problem.  Pulling this domain down to a secondary under Win2K also
> works fine.
>
> When the record is pulled from a Linux (RedHat 7.2) box the entry
> below is created.  When I promote these boxes to the external DNS
> address everything works fine with the exception of absoluteanime.com
> (www works).
>
> This is the same way for each site that we maintain DNS for.  Is there
> something that I need to change on the Win2K box to create a proper
> entry that bind understands or is bind just failing for all
> mydomains.com when there is no third level domain name?
>
> Any help is appriciated.
>
> $ORIGIN .
> $TTL 3600       ; 1 hour
> absoluteanime.com       IN SOA  ronin.primeexalia.com.
> admin.primeexalia.com. (
>                                 208        ; serial
>                                 900        ; refresh (15 minutes)
>                                 600        ; retry (10 minutes)
>                                 86400      ; expire (1 day)
>                                 3600       ; minimum (1 hour)
>                                 )
>                         NS      ns1.primeexalia.com.
>                         NS      ns2.primeexalia.com.
>                         A       66.47.240.92
> $ORIGIN absoluteanime.com.
> www                     A       66.47.240.92