No address (A) records available for couchblip.com

[Melinda Taylor]

Hi Barry,

Thanks! I did try putting:

couchblip.com IN A 202.173.134.101

originally. Thanks to Kevins email, I now realise means 
couchblip.com.couchblip.com

And thanks for the tip on mail. I have changed it to an A record now.

Thanks :)

Melinda

Barry Margolin wrote:

>In article <chqtg6$qrp$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
> Melinda Taylor <melinda.taylor at unsw.edu.au> wrote:
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>>My zone is attached below. I am a bit confused as to what syntax I
>>would use to set it so that just the domain "couchblip.com" can be
>>looked up. If anyone could point me in the right direction that would
>>be much appreciated.
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>I'm not sure why you're so confused, since you managed to figure it out 
>for the MX record, and the A record is done exactly the same way.
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>couchblip.com. IN A 202.173.134.101
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>BTW, MX records shouldn't point to CNAME records, they should point to A 
>records.  So either change your MX record to point to www, or change 
>mail from a CNAME record to an A record.
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>>Many Thanks,
>>
>>melinda
>>
>>PS at the moment I have reinstated my old isp's DNS server so that 
>>couchblip.com is known, it should be reinstated in an hour or so but to 
>>query my nameserver you can connect to 202.173.134.101
>>
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>>;
>>; Zone file for couchblip.com
>>;
>>; The full zone file
>>;
>>$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
>>    
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