From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 24 11:18:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BBF316A4DA for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:18:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikhailg@webanoide.org) Received: from overlord.navalradio.cl (overlord.navalradio.cl [201.236.67.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AD6043D6B for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:18:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikhailg@webanoide.org) Received: from [10.0.0.7] (ppp111-84.lns1.hba1.internode.on.net [150.101.111.84]) (authenticated bits=0) by overlord.navalradio.cl (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6OBIIYB012623; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 07:18:20 -0400 (CLT) (envelope-from mikhailg@webanoide.org) Message-ID: <44C4AC6D.10305@webanoide.org> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:18:05 +1000 From: Mikhail Goriachev Organization: Webanoide User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Macintosh/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Stanford References: <44C47C7E.5030609@webanoide.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-98.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL, USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=no version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on overlord.navalradio.cl Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple DNS Configuration X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:18:38 -0000 David Stanford wrote: > > Thanks Mikhail, that was it: > ===== > @ IN NS ns.example.org. > ===== No worries, glad to hear it's cranking. > Now it appears to be working correctly and responding to queries, however > I'm noticing I continue to get that same error when I add my CNAME entry: > ===== > @ IN CNAME www.example.org. > ===== Hmmm... Not sure how that one goes. > Doesn't the "@" simply represent the domain, in this case "example.org"? Yes, that's correct. > That makes this translate from example.org -> www.example.org, correct? The following gives you the result you want: @ IN A 192.168.1.1 ; whatever your www's IP is So your DNS will respond with the same IP no matter if it's example.org or www.example.org (assuming www has been declared somewhere as well). Hopefully this helps. Cheers, Mikhail. -- Mikhail Goriachev Webanoide Telephone: +61 (0)3 62252501 Mobile Phone: +61 (0)4 38255158 E-Mail: mikhailg@webanoide.org Web: http://www.webanoide.org PGP Key ID: 0x4E148A3B PGP Key Fingerprint: D96B 7C14 79A5 8824 B99D 9562 F50E 2F5D 4E14 8A3B