<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>On a domain all the subdomain names resolve to IP address (mail, ns1, www, etc etc) but the base domain name does not.<br class=""><br class="">the config files looks like:<br class=""><br class="">$ORIGIN .<br class="">$TTL 86400 ; 1 day<br class=""><a href="http://covisp.net" class="">covisp.net</a>. IN SOA <a href="http://ns1.covisp.net" class="">ns1.covisp.net</a>. <a href="http://root.covisp.net" class="">root.covisp.net</a>. (<br class=""> 2016103100 ; serial<br class=""> 1H ; refresh<br class=""> 15 ; retry<br class=""> 1w ; expire<br class=""> 600 ; minimum<br class=""> )<br class=""> NS <a href="http://ns1.covisp.net" class="">ns1.covisp.net</a>.<br class=""> NS <a href="http://ns2.covisp.net" class="">ns2.covisp.net</a>.<br class=""> NS <a href="http://mail.covisp.net" class="">mail.covisp.net</a>.<br class=""> MX 10 <a href="http://mail.covisp.net" class="">mail.covisp.net</a>.<br class="">$ORIGIN <a href="http://covisp.net" class="">covisp.net</a>.<br class="">mail A 65.121.55.42<br class="">ns1 A 65.121.55.43<br class="">ns2 A 65.121.55.44<br class="">www A 65.121.55.45<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://dnscheck.pingdom.com" class="">dnscheck.pingdom.com</a> shows everything is fine.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><<a href="http://dnscheck.pingdom.com/?domain=covisp.net×tamp=1478077674&view=1" class="">http://dnscheck.pingdom.com/?domain=covisp.net×tamp=1478077674&view=1</a>></div><div><br class=""> # dig <a href="http://covisp.net" class="">covisp.net</a> @ns2.covisp.net<br class="">…<br class=""><br class="">;<a href="http://covisp.net" class="">covisp.net</a>.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>IN<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A<br class=""><br class="">;; AUTHORITY SECTION:<br class=""><a href="http://covisp.net" class="">covisp.net</a>.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>600<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>IN<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>SOA<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://ns1.covisp.net" class="">ns1.covisp.net</a>. <a href="http://root.covisp.net" class="">root.covisp.net</a>. 2016103100 3600 15 604800 600<br class=""><br class="">(I have also tried the following, with no change:<br class=""><br class="">$ORIGIN <a href="http://covisp.net" class="">covisp.net</a>.<br class="">. A 65.121.55.42<br class="">mail A 65.121.55.42<br class=""><br class="">I’m sure it’s something stupid….<br class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>