DNS question: Finding just my domain

[Matthew Carpenter]

What do you propose the root of your domain resolve to?  You have to explicitly define it.  If you are defining "mydomain.com" in a particular file or section you can create an A record for "@" which is interpretted as the zone you are defining:

@	IN A 69.33.10.246

If you wish for your domain to resolve the the "www" entry, typically the @ will be defined as the A record, and www can be a CNAME, if you so choose.



On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 09:07:50 -0500
Joel Hammer <joel at hammershome.com> wrote:

> 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:
> 
> nslookup mydomain.com  
> doesn't give anything.
> 
> This confuses fetchmail, which refuses to deliver mail from a domain it
> can't resolve.
> 
> I have solved this problem the brute force way, by just putting:
> 
> mydomain.com. A IN 192.168.1.6
> 
> into my configuration file, but this seems, well, how shall I say it,...
> dumb?
> 
> Is there a proper way to configure my DNS to return an ip address when
> just the domain name is requested?
> 
> 
> Joel
> 
> 
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