Creating an additional DNS zone file

K Anderson freebsduser at attbi.com
Fri Jun 20 12:34:28 PDT 2003



Alfonso Romero wrote:
> 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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Are you talking internally or externally?
I pinged lalis.com & www.lalis.com and got the same IP address.

I forget how to do it but you might be able to do some sort of zone 
thing where either you can look at how somebody else has it done or even 
do a zone transfer.



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