No address (A) records available for couchblip.com

[Kevin Darcy]

The simple answer is: add an A record with an owner name of 
"couchblip.com".

You could either do that in the style of the couchblip.com SOA record 
(owner name is literally "@"), the style of the couchblip.com NS record 
(owner name is literally whitespace, which in master-file semantics 
means it inherits the last non-whitespace owner name, which happens to 
be "@") (by the way, you're required to have at least 2 nameservers for 
your zone), or in the style of the couchblip.com MX record, where you 
explicitly set the owner name to "couchblip.com." (don't forget the 
trailing period, otherwise the origin will be appended, causing the 
owner name to be parsed as "couchblip.com.couchblip.com.").

As you can see, master-file format gives one the flexibility to specify 
resource records in a variety of different ways.

- Kevin

Melinda Taylor wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Pleae excuse me if this message appears twice.
>
>I am running a small server at home called couchblip.com. I have just
>had to setup a DNS server for the very first time. I am running Fedora
>Core 2 with bind-9.2.3-13 running in a chroot jail.
>
>I have just noticed that I do not seem to have an A record for the
>base domain name. ie couchblip.com. From an external site I try:
>
>nslookup couchblip.com
>Server:  usage.unsw.EDU.AU
>Address:  149.171.192.2
>
>*** No address (A) records available for couchblip.com
>
>but the DNS appears to working ok other than that:
>
>nslookup www.couchblip.com
>Server:  usage.unsw.EDU.AU
>Address:  149.171.192.2
>
>Non-authoritative answer:
>Name:    www.couchblip.com
>Address:  202.173.134.101
>
>My zone is attached below. I am a bit confused as to what syntax I
>would use to set it so that just the domain "couchblip.com" can be
>looked up. If anyone could point me in the right direction that would
>be much appreciated.
>
>
>Many Thanks,
>
>melinda
>
>PS at the moment I have reinstated my old isp's DNS server so that 
>couchblip.com is known, it should be reinstated in an hour or so but to 
>query my nameserver you can connect to 202.173.134.101
>
>
>
>
>;
>; Zone file for couchblip.com
>;
>; The full zone file
>;
>$TTL 3D
>@       IN      SOA     ns1.couchblip.com. hostmaster.couchblip.com. (
>                         2004083000       ; serial#
>                         10800            ; refresh, seconds
>                         3600            ; retry, seconds
>     	                2592000         ; expire, seconds
>                         600 )          ; minimum, seconds
>;
>                 NS      www             ; Inet Address of nameserver
>
>couchblip.com.    MX      10 mail         ; Primary Mail Exchanger
>
>;
>localhost       A       127.0.0.1
>www             A       202.173.134.101
>mail            CNAME   www
>ns1             CNAME   www
>robokoneko      CNAME   www
>disjunction	CNAME 	www
>bloq		CNAME 	www
>himuro		CNAME 	www
>pellarin	CNAME 	www
>distribution	CNAME 	www
>webmail		CNAME 	www
>
>
>
>
>  
>