CNAME question

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Hi
          I am running BIND 8.x on Sun Solaris 8. I have a trivial question.

For some reason, I am NOT able to get to http://mydomainname.com
<http://mydomainname.com/>  from outside or inside but
http://www.mydomainname.com <http://www.mydomainname.com/>  works fine. I
know it is a CNAME issue, so I have my DNS setup like this

 

 

 

www                IN         A               IP address

 

mydomainname       IN         CNAME            www

 

 

 

When I do nslookup or dig on www.mydomainname.com, it returns an IP but when
I do it on just mydomainname.com, it returns the IP of my nameserver not my
webserver. Could this be the issue? Can someone please point me in the right
direction?. Thx

 

 Ragu