"can't find bounty.org: Non-existent host/domain"

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9pihfn$qas at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Petro  <petro at bounty.org> wrote:
>	If one does a lookup for "www.bounty.org", one gets the appropriate ip
>(it's a cname to lists.bounty.org). If one is sending mail to
>petro at bounty.org, it gets delivered (indicating to me that the MX record
>is working properly). However if one just does a lookup on "bounty.org"
>using (the now deprecated, I understand) nslookup one gets "can't find
>bounty.org: Non-existent host/domain". If one uses dig, you get:

Both nslookup and dig default to querying for A records, and you don't have
any A records for bounty.org.

>bounty.org.     1w      cname                   lists

This line is invalid.  A name cannot have records of its own and also be an
alias.  If you want to provide an address for bounty.org, use an A record.

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