Newbie Question

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Mon Apr 8 15:09:32 UTC 2002


In article <a8r5pv$ksl at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Paul Guba  <paulguba at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>OK so I have set up the DNS based on the examples in DNS and Bind book.  
>I'm able to nslookup all the computers in my domain.  Not many just four 
>computers and a router.  All the names resolve to to the IP addresses 
>and vice versa.  However if I do nslookup mydomain.com, nslookup 
>www.mydomain.com I get the dreaded can't find message.  Based on the 
>book I can't find out what I'm doing wrong.  I am running Bind 8.2.3-1 
>on YDL Linux.

Sounds like you created A records for all the <name>.<yourdomain> entries,
but no A record for just <yourdomain>.  What did you expect it to do when
you asked it to look up something you didn't enter?

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