no hostname become unresolvable.

Sam Wilson Sam.Wilson at ed.ac.uk
Tue Feb 23 14:57:40 UTC 2010


In article <mailman.538.1266936679.21153.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
 "Lightner, Jeff" <jlightner at water.com> wrote:

> You need an A record for the domain itself:
> superease.net.   IN      A       202.68.195.36
> www              IN      A       202.68.195.36
> 
> The first one (terminated by the dot) tells it lookup for the domain
> name "superease.net" itself.  The dot is important - without it this
> would try to lookup superease.net.superease.net.
> 
> The second one www (without a dot) tells it to lookup www.superease.net
> by appending the domain to the entry.

Better yet use @, as the OP already does for NS and MX records - it 
means "the current origin" as set by the zone name that the file is 
loaded into from named.conf or as set by $ORIGIN (which is probably 
superfluous in this case), and is shorter and easier to type.

Sam


> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water.com at lists.isc.org
> [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water.com at lists.isc.org] On Behalf
> Of Cefull Lo
>   :
>   :
> $TTL    86400
> $ORIGIN superease.net.
> @                       IN SOA  dns1.man169.com. root.dns1.man169.com. (
>                                         2010022307      ; serial (d.
> adams)
>                                         10800           ; refresh
>                                         900             ; retry
>                                         604800          ; expiry
>                                         86400 )         ; minimum
> 
> @               IN      NS      dns1.man169.com.
> @               IN      NS      dns2.man169.com.
> @               IN      MX 10   mail.man169.com.
> ... [etc.]



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