From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 5 01:54:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA04764 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 01:54:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from witch.xtra.co.nz (witch.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA04745 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 01:54:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by witch.xtra.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id VAA15002; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 21:50:00 +1300 (NZDT) Message-Id: <199810050850.VAA15002@witch.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: Steve Howe Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 21:50:07 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: DNS problem Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: Chris Johnson , freebsd-questions , empey@plato2.ml.org References: <19981005114842.R2545@freebie.lemis.com> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 4 Oct 98, at 23:29, Steve Howe wrote: > > > >>> integral.on.ca A 24.112.14.35 > > > can someone clarify whether this is correct? > > Yes, it's correct. > > ok, just for the archives: > > a name is ok without a dot at the end. > a number is ok without a dot at the end. > but a name with dots needs a dot at the end. > > a good place to go for BIND/DNS/named, DHCP, and INN > is www.isc.org. Another good thing to install when doing named, is nslint. It will find many of the problems. Including, no doubt, the one that started this thread. It's one of the things I installed. Details on my website. cheers. -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - my [mis]adventures http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message