Host resolve question.

[staalejg]

Ok. I if add the following entry I get the desired results:

company.com.        IN A        172.16.10.4

But, shouldn't the blank entry work as well since it gets the "company.com."
entry from the named.conf file?


"staalejg" <staalejg at bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> Can someone help?
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> I have two entries in my zone file. (company.com)
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>             IN A        172.16.10.4
> www    IN A        172.16.10.4
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> When I run NSLOOKUP and do a query for these hosts I get the following
> results.
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> >company.com
> Server: dns.company.com
> Address: 172.16.10.1
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> *** dns.company.com can't find company.com:  Non-existent host/domain
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> >www.company.com
> Server: dns.company.com
> Address: 172.16.10.1
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> Name:    www.company.com
> Address:    172.16.10.4
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> I want to the dns server to resolve a query for company.com to the same
> address as www.company.com.
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> Thanks.
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