Martin Fahrendorf wrote on Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:45:33AM +0200 :
> >
> > > $ORIGIN .

Get rid of the above line.

> > >             IN NS           enigma.

Get rid of the trailing dot.

> > >             IN MX 10        enigma.

Get rid of the trailing dot.

> > > $ORIGIN microverse.net.
> > > $TTL 86400      ; 1 day

Get rid of both these lines (already have the important one at the top)

> > > localhost IN A       127.0.0.1

Get rid of this line.

> > > ftp         IN CNAME        enigma.
> > > www         IN CNAME        enigma.
> > > mail        IN CNAME        enigma.

Get rid of the trailing dot on each line.

> > > spartack.   IN A    192.168.1.253   ; comment
> > > homeworld.  IN A    192.168.1.252   ; comment

Get rid of the trailing dot on each line.

> is there realy a dot (.) after the name enigma? so the host ftp resolves to 
> "enigma." includes the dot and not to enigma.microverse.net. enigma. can 
> not be resolved. The dot at the end of a hostname in the bind db says not 
> to append the domainname to the name. Replace the dot at the end of the 
> hostnames and retry.

I am so embarrassed that I didn't see this before Martin sent this email.
Martin, this was great catch.  I glossed over it and didn't even pay
attention to it.  Like I said, I'm embarrassed.

Blue skies...                   Todd
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