Creating an additional DNS zone file

Alfonso Romero ibac at prodigy.net.mx
Thu Jun 19 23:32:09 PDT 2003


I have a DNS server for my local LAN. I use "ibacsoft.dynu.com" as the primary zone and all works properly. When I wanted to add an additional zone, "lalis.com", to use virtual hosts with apache, I created the following zone file, called "lalis.com" on /etc/namedb:

-------------------------------------------
$TTL    3600
lalis.com.       IN      SOA     adeline.ibacsoft.dynu.com. root.adeline.ibacsoft.dynu.com (
                                6        ; Serial
                                3600    ; Refresh
                                900     ; Retry
                                3600000 ; Expire
                                3600 )  ; Minimum
               IN      NS      adeline.ibacsoft.dynu.com.
;
                IN      A       192.168.0.101

www             IN CNAME        @
mail            IN CNAME        @

@               IN MX   10      mail.lalis.com.
------------------------------------

I then reload named with "ndc reload", ping www.lalis.com and all looks fine.
I even go to www.lalis.com and the apache home page shows up.

The problem is when I try to use lalis.com, without the "www" part. When I ping lalis.com, it doesn´t give me the correct internal IP address, like www.lalis.com does.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,

Alfonso Romero




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