hosting by name

[Simon Waters]

Rick wrote:
> 
> $TTL  3h
> hawthorndesign.net. IN SOA hawthorndesign.net. hawthorn.hawthorndesign.net.
> (
>    1 ; Serial
>    3h ; Refresh after 3 hours
>    1h ; Retry after 1 h
>    1w ; Expire after 1 week
>    1h ) ; Negative caching TTL of 1 hour
> 
>  IN NS ns1.dnn.cc.
>  IN NS ns2.dnn.cc.
>  IN MX 10 mail.hawthorndesign.net

Cough ... dots on the ends of names......

> # IN MX 10 mail.dnn.cc.

Something smells here. Semicolon is a comment character.
 
>  IN A 66.73.83.41
> www IN A  66.73.83.41
> 
> mail.hawthorndesign.net IN A 66.73.83.41

Cough..... dots on the end of names...
 
> There may be many errors, but actually, my primary irritation right now is
> that  www.hawthorndesign.net works, and hawthorndesign.net does not.  When I
> dig hawthorndesign.net, there is no answer section.

Better than my first attempt.
 
> Since my level of experience is, low, I would like to include a section of
> httpd.conf, b/c I don't know what the issue is.  I apologize, since apache
> is off topic for this newsgroup--yet the question begs to be asked.  The
> experienced folks here would check more than one possibility, and there may
> be a relationship (maybe they're both hosed!)
> 
> At this point, httpd.conf for my bro is quite simply:
> <VirtualHost *>
> DocumentRoot /home/hawthorn/public_html
> ServerName www.hawthorndesign.net
> ServerAlias hawthorndesign.net
> </VirtualHost>

This looks okay - your right in thinking the answer from the DNS
is missing. When that works you can troubleshoot the webserver
;)

> Can anyone tell me my problem, so I can move on to sendmail?

Use "Postfix", sendmail is well past it's sell by date, it was
designed for a less hostile Internet.


Here is your lost A record.....

; <<>> DiG 9.2.0rc9 <<>> #.hawthorndesign.net any
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 58140
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2,
ADDITIONAL: 2
 
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;#.hawthorndesign.net.          IN      ANY
 
;; ANSWER SECTION:
#.hawthorndesign.net.   10800   IN      A       66.73.83.41
#.hawthorndesign.net.   10800   IN      MX      10 mail.dnn.cc.
 
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
hawthorndesign.net.     10780   IN      NS      ns2.dnn.cc.
hawthorndesign.net.     10780   IN      NS      ns1.dnn.cc.
 
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.dnn.cc.             3576    IN      A       66.73.83.41
ns2.dnn.cc.             3576    IN      A       66.73.83.42