DNS question: Finding just my domain

[Kurt Wall]

Consuming 0.8K bytes, Joel Hammer blathered:
> I run a DNS on my local home network.
> 
> Everything works fine except that the domain name alone doesn't resolve
> to anything, eg:
> 
> nslookup fred (a known member of mydomain)
> works and gives fred.mydomain.com but:

I have an A record for domain. I also have an A record for
the FQDN of the machine on which the domain (appears to) live.
Thus:

$ host kurtwerks.com.
kurtwerks.com has address 66.93.172.75
$ host kurtwerks.com
kurtwerks.com has address 66.93.172.75

Kurt
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