error: bad dotted quad

[Dawn Connelly]

I think you are looking for a CNAME record rather than an A record my
friend. Try doing:
        IN CNAME            usnlbc.us.publicus.com.
A record expect IP addresses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNAME

On 12/7/06, Bryan Irvine <sparctacus at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I made a change to DNS and added this record:
>         IN A            usnlbc.us.publicus.com.
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> and I'm getting this error:
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> 07-Dec-2006 14:30:30.266 general: error: dns_rdata_fromtext:
> /master/kingcountyjournal.com.hosts:24: near 'usnlbc.us.publicus.com.':
> bad
> dotted quad
> 07-Dec-2006 14:30:30.270 general: error: zone kingcountyjournal.com/IN:
> loading master file /master/kingcountyjournal.com.hosts: bad dotted quad
>
>
> Am I doing something wrong here?
>
> --Bryan
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