Problems with DNS

[Fred Viles]

marisj at uniserve.com (Jack Marissen) wrote in
<38AEE07F.E31DBE72 at uniserve.com>: 

>Hello all.
>
>I am new at all this finer stuff on the Internet.  Up to now we
>had an outside company host our site.  Recently we set up our own
>server and obtained a static IP address.  We have set up our web
>pages on this server.  We next went to The Public DNS at
>soa at granitecanyon.com and entered the following data:
>------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>credochs.org. IN SOA ns1.granitecanyon.com. marisj.uniserve.com.
>credochs.org.  IN  NS ns1.granitecanyon.com.
>credochs.org.  IN  NS ns2.granitecanyon.com.
>
>credochs.org.  IN  RP marisj.uniserve.com. marisj.credochs.org.
>credochs.org.  IN  RP aikemd.marissen.net. aikemd.credochs.org.
>credochs.org.  IN  RP vandesc.marissen.net. vandesc.credochs.org.
>
>marisj.credochs.org. IN TXT #Jack Marissen#
>aikemd.credochs.org.  IN TXT #David Aikema#
>vandesc.credochs.org.  IN TXT #Scott Vandermolen#
>
>localhost.credochs.org.   IN  A  127.0.0.1
>
>credochs.org.  IN  A  216.232.127.179
>www.credochs.org.  IN CNAME credochs.org.
>
>*.credochs.org.  IN  MX  10 mail.credochs.org. ; GLOBALOK
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Your MX record is invalid, because "mail.credochs.org" is not 
defined.  Also, you should have an MX record for the domain itself to 
avoid unecessary lookups.  Assuming you really do want people to be 
able to address mail to "user at anyname.CREDOCHS.ORG" as well as 
"user at CREDOCHS.ORG", the MX record avove should be replaced with 

credochs.org.  IN  MX  10 credochs.org.
*.credochs.org.  IN  MX  10 credochs.org. ; GLOBALOK

This has nothing to do with resolving your IP address, of course.  
That seems to be working fine.

>...
>Why won't the names of credochs.org  or www.credochs.org  resolve?

They do for me.  Perhaps you were hitting a server that still has old 
data in its cache.

- FV