ARGH! response to localhost, no response to remote hosts

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Fri Sep 1 22:53:44 UTC 2000


> 
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Mark Drummond wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I'm stumped ... can someone try doing an nslookup against
> > dev.newzletter.com? Sitting on the master DNS server I can nslookup and
> > it returns the right answer ... but from a remote location the lookup
> > times out with "no such host ...".
> 
> [root at base mod_perl-1.24]# nslookup dev.newzletter.com
> Server:  fw
> Address:  10.10.10.1
> 
> Name:    dev.newzletter.com
> Address:  216.13.90.51
> 
> Works fine here.
> 
> > localhost       A       127.0.0.1
> > @               A       216.13.90.55
> 
> @ ?? Is that legal ?

	Yes.  @ expands to the current origin.  Origin starts with the
	name of the zone and may be modified via $ORIGIN.

	This is basic zone syntax.

> 
> > www             A       216.13.90.55
> > dev             A       216.13.90.51
> 
> 
> 
> 	Igmar
> 
> 
> 
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