No address (A) records available for couchblip.com
Kevin Darcy
kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Fri Sep 10 01:15:10 UTC 2004
The simple answer is: add an A record with an owner name of
"couchblip.com".
You could either do that in the style of the couchblip.com SOA record
(owner name is literally "@"), the style of the couchblip.com NS record
(owner name is literally whitespace, which in master-file semantics
means it inherits the last non-whitespace owner name, which happens to
be "@") (by the way, you're required to have at least 2 nameservers for
your zone), or in the style of the couchblip.com MX record, where you
explicitly set the owner name to "couchblip.com." (don't forget the
trailing period, otherwise the origin will be appended, causing the
owner name to be parsed as "couchblip.com.couchblip.com.").
As you can see, master-file format gives one the flexibility to specify
resource records in a variety of different ways.
- Kevin
Melinda Taylor wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Pleae excuse me if this message appears twice.
>
>I am running a small server at home called couchblip.com. I have just
>had to setup a DNS server for the very first time. I am running Fedora
>Core 2 with bind-9.2.3-13 running in a chroot jail.
>
>I have just noticed that I do not seem to have an A record for the
>base domain name. ie couchblip.com. From an external site I try:
>
>nslookup couchblip.com
>Server: usage.unsw.EDU.AU
>Address: 149.171.192.2
>
>*** No address (A) records available for couchblip.com
>
>but the DNS appears to working ok other than that:
>
>nslookup www.couchblip.com
>Server: usage.unsw.EDU.AU
>Address: 149.171.192.2
>
>Non-authoritative answer:
>Name: www.couchblip.com
>Address: 202.173.134.101
>
>My zone is attached below. I am a bit confused as to what syntax I
>would use to set it so that just the domain "couchblip.com" can be
>looked up. If anyone could point me in the right direction that would
>be much appreciated.
>
>
>Many Thanks,
>
>melinda
>
>PS at the moment I have reinstated my old isp's DNS server so that
>couchblip.com is known, it should be reinstated in an hour or so but to
>query my nameserver you can connect to 202.173.134.101
>
>
>
>
>;
>; Zone file for couchblip.com
>;
>; The full zone file
>;
>$TTL 3D
>@ IN SOA ns1.couchblip.com. hostmaster.couchblip.com. (
> 2004083000 ; serial#
> 10800 ; refresh, seconds
> 3600 ; retry, seconds
> 2592000 ; expire, seconds
> 600 ) ; minimum, seconds
>;
> NS www ; Inet Address of nameserver
>
>couchblip.com. MX 10 mail ; Primary Mail Exchanger
>
>;
>localhost A 127.0.0.1
>www A 202.173.134.101
>mail CNAME www
>ns1 CNAME www
>robokoneko CNAME www
>disjunction CNAME www
>bloq CNAME www
>himuro CNAME www
>pellarin CNAME www
>distribution CNAME www
>webmail CNAME www
>
>
>
>
>
>
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