DNS configuration error

Thomas Langås tlan at online.no
Tue Dec 21 00:07:51 UTC 1999


Barry Margolin wrote:

> In article <385EAD5E.3F8679AA at online.no>,
> Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lang=E5s?=  <tlan at online.no> wrote:
> >I've bought a domain under .com, let's call it domain.com, and then I've
> >set it up on a DNS. It's working and everything is OK. But, then, I want
> >the box who is being refered to as domain.com to handle all request for
> >subdomains of domain.com, how do I do that?  I've tried to just setup a
> >named on my box, but that didn't help much... And, I'm no named-wiz so,
> >please, I need some help...  If you want, I can give you all the
> >configfiles, just let me know.
>
> When you registered the domain, you supplied a list of nameservers.  That
> list should include your box, so everyone will be referred to your box, or
> one of the slave servers that transfer the domain from your box, when they
> want to look up something in your domain.
> Is that what you needed to know, or am I misunderstanding your question?

The DNS servering the actual domain.com is registered at internic, and the
domain.com itself resolves like it should, and routes to my box. So I thought it
was possible to handle all subdomain-requests for domain.com with a named on my
box. If this is possible, how should I set things up?

--Thomas



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