DNS question http://www.xyz.com

[Charles Cala]

--- Greg Jackson <procir at gmail.com> wrote:
> sorry did mean to get your PANTIES all up in a twist 
You must have me confused with some one else, today I’m freebagging.

>(or maybe its that time of the month for you) 
Its about 10pm here, it happens every day, not every month…

> about using xyz.com but I like your
> reference to i_am_cluless_newbee.argh. Thats pretty funny Chuckie
Glad your amused, when  I am referring to newsgroups in 
documentation, I use alt.sex.hello-kitty .

> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:58:05 -0500, Greg Jackson <procir at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was using xyz.com as an example
XYZ.COM is set up the way you wish your domain to be.
If you had used some standard tools, or hit up the nifty book,
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dns4/
you would have been able to figure it on your own.

Or you could have searched through the mailing list archives,
or looked though some of the DNS how to’s that are floating around,
or you could use some simple tools such as dig, or nslookup.

> > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:52:59 -0800 (PST), Charles Cala
> > <charles_cala at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > --- procir at gmail.com wrote:
> > > > I am setting up some DNS servers running BIND 9.2. How do I setup DNS
> > > > so when you are accesing a website you can go to http://xyz.com instead
> > > > of going to http://www.xyz.com. Currently the site is accessible by
> > > > going to http://www.xyz.com but I want to be able to hit the site
> > > > without the www as well. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in
> > > > advance
> > >
> > > xyz.com does that now, are you shure your hitting the right web server?

Using dig we can see the information about a zone, or part of one…

buggeroff # >dig @ns.xyz.com xyz.com

; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> @ns.xyz.com xyz.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;xyz.com.                       IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
xyz.com.                604800  IN      A       64.146.134.38

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
xyz.com.                604800  IN      NS      ns.xyz.com.
xyz.com.                604800  IN      NS      ns.jedwards.net.
xyz.com.                604800  IN      NS      ns1.rdrop.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns.xyz.com.             604800  IN      A       64.146.134.39
ns.jedwards.net.        172800  IN      A       216.231.55.238
ns1.rdrop.com.          66927   IN      A       199.26.172.34

;; Query time: 70 msec
;; SERVER: 64.146.134.39#53(ns.xyz.com)
;; WHEN: Thu Mar 31 15:44:55 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 159

buggeroff # > 


> > > if your domain is not your own, perhaps you should mention it
> > > so that the people of this group will actually be able to taylor
> > > a responce to your problem.
> > > for example, if your domain is i_am_a_cluless_newbee.argh ,
> > > and you wish www.i_am_a_cluless_newbee.argh to go to the same ip
> > > as i_am_a_cluless_newbee.argh , it can be done with an "A record"
After getting the solution, its considered “nice” to post the result 
back to the group so that others can learn from what you did. 

There are some people who do look for answers before asking 
people questions, and some very nice people who post verbose 
step by step ways others can avoid their pitfalls, 
such as this kind person.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bind-users&m=110175708901624&w=2
AND he included his domain name, AND ip, so we could assist him.

-charles