Zone stops responding to domain.com

[Matthew Pounsett]

On 10-Oct-2008, at 21:01 , Beavis wrote:

> $TTL 3h
> @ IN SOA ns1.secretdns.net. noc.secretdns.net. (
>        2008031001      ; serial
>        3h              ; refresh
>        1h              ; retry
>        1w              ; expire
>        1h)             ; TTL cache
> ;
>                IN NS           ns1.secretdns.net.
>                IN NS           ns2.secretdns.net.
> ;
> domain.com.             IN CNAME        us

You can't have a CNAME record and other data for a name.  In this zone  
you have a CNAME, and SOA and two NS records for domain.com.  Because  
it's the apex of your zone, and you must have the SOA and NS records,  
you won't be able to use a CNAME there.

You can use an A record instead, and have us.domain.com be a CNAME to  
domain.com if you want.



>
> www.domain.com.   IN CNAME        us
> us                                       IN A             
> 192.168.100.40
>
> I can query for the www.domain.com and it will respond on
> us.domain.com but if i try to query domain.com only it doesn't answer.
>
> any of you kind folks wonder why?
>
>
>
> regards,
> -b