Alias and CNAME question

[Kevin Darcy]

Looks like there's something wrong with krynn or a
router/NAT/firewall/whatever between it and the Internet, since I can't
resolve anything from that box. The reason krynn's name resolves even in
the absence of krynn being able to answer for the domain, is that the
TLD servers have that name as a glue record.

By the way, from your domain delegation, it looks like register.com allows
one to violate the traditional 2-nameserver minimum rule. Do you care at
all about your domain's availability?


- Kevin

Kevin Clark wrote:

> Here is my set up.  I have a DSL line coming into a router with ip
> address 209.141.30.9.  My linux box is assigned IP address
> 192.168.254.2.  The router uses NAT to translate all incoming and
> outgoing connections.  I have recently set DNS on this machine.  For now
> I just have the one server (no secondary yet).
>
> I told internic that the IP address of my DNS is 209.141.30.9 (my host
> name is krynn my domain is kevinclark.org - krynn.kevinclark.org).
>
> I set up my db and conf files referencing the public 209.141.30.9.  When
> trying to ftp into or view web pages (I have a Apache running) to
> krynn.kevinclark.org everything works great, I can connect.  Here is the
> problem, I set up some aliases www.kevinclark.org and ftp.kevinclark.org
> and these do not seem to want to work after restarting named, I can't
> connect.  Netscape and my FTP program time out with an error can't find
> hostname.  Here is a copy of my db.kevinclark file:
>
> -----
>
>   kevinclark.org.  IN  NS  Krynn.kevinclark.org.
>
> localhost.kevinclark.org.            IN  A     127.0.0.1
> Krynn.kevinclark.org.   IN      A       209.141.30.9
> ;
> ; Aliases
> ;
> www.kevinclark.org.     IN      CNAME   Krynn.kevinclark.org.
> ftp.kevinclark.org.     IN      CNAME   Krynn.kevinclark.org.
>
> --------
>
> I've tried using "A" records instead of "CNAME" assigned both the
> internal 192.168.254.2 and the external 209.141.30.9 ip neither worked.
>
> I have also tried setting up the db and conf files using the internal IP
> and the same problem occurs,  krynn.kevinclark.org works but not the
> aliases.
>
> Is this a problem with my DNS setup or some quirk of the router using
> NAT?
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Kevin Clark
>
> here is copy of my db.209.141.30.9 file just in case
>
> -------------------
> 30.141.209.in-addr.arpa.  IN  NS  Krynn.kevinclark.org.
>
> 9.30.141.209.in-addr.arpa.      IN      PTR     Krynn.kevinclark.org.
> --------------------