Need help with BIND - DNS configuration
 

Hi gang,

It seems that I may be having DNS troubles .. I'd like some help if anybody is capable. As a side note, I'd like users to be able to drop the www. in front of the domain and still hit the website .. what do I need to do to accomplish this?

Thanks guys/gals!



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$TTL 3600
@ in soa ns.lactatingbabe.com. postmaster.lactatingbabe.com. (
2003080701 ;serial
4H ;refresh
2H ;retry
1D ;expiration
1H ) ;minimum

ns ns.lactatingbabe.com.
mx 10 mail.lactatingbabe.com.

ns a 209.167.201.6
www a 209.167.201.6
mail a 209.167.201.6


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Just add an ""A" line with no hostname. You're also going to need to change your httpd.conf (assuming you run apache).

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$TTL 3600
@ in soa ns.lactatingbabe.com. postmaster.lactatingbabe.com. (
2003080701 ;serial
4H ;refresh
2H ;retry
1D ;expiration
1H ) ;minimum

ns ns.lactatingbabe.com.
mx 10 mail.lactatingbabe.com.

      a 209.167.201.6
ns a 209.167.201.6
www a 209.167.201.6
mail a 209.167.201.6

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Looks like you need an A record for lactatingbabe.com

I see one for www.lactatingbabe.com not for lactatingbabe.com

You need something like

lactatingbabe.com A 209.167.201.6

That would make lactatingbabe.com.lactatingbabe.com = 209.167.201.6.

huh?? How so..

That record doesnt even exsist

You forgot a "." after the domain.

okay sorry.. your right

Awesome!

I was not aware that you could have an "A" record without a "prefix"

Thanks for the help guys! It now works.


On another note:

I've been looking into why some people are not able to load my website .. it seems as though my name server ns1.auroraservers.net is not resolving ... odd ...

I changed all of my "times" to lower values because I anticipate an IP address change soon .. and wanted to be prepared. All I did was change the refresh, etc times and the serial numbers for all hosted domains ... I wonder why I would suddenly have troubles?!

If anybody is seriously bored, do you want to look into this with me? :D


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$TTL 3600
@ in soa ns1.auroraservers.net. postmaster.auroraservers.net. (
2003081401 ;serial
4H ;refresh
2H ;retry
1D ;expiration
1H ) ;minimum

ns ns1.auroraservers.net.
mx 10 mail.auroraservers.net.

ns a 209.167.201.6
ns1 a 209.167.201.6
www a 209.167.201.6
ftp a 209.167.201.6
mail a 209.167.201.6

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Just updated my domain to allow for the exclusion of www. and it works flawlessly. Thanks for the help on that one guys :)