On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Robbie Walker wrote:
> Like I said, I don't have my ref book here, but I don't think you are
> supposed to have a nameserver entry point to a CNAME...
Thank you very much I think you are right,
I have changed the DNS entry as you suggested.
I though still have an error.
I am working on a test machine.
which is not connected to the net,
and the differences will only be updated later today.
to the online machine.
> - ----------------------------------------------------------
> > IN NS dhamma.metta.lk.
> >dhamma IN CNAME metta.lk.
> - ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> I would recommend changing you named.hosts files as follows:
> - ----------------------------------------------------------
> /var/named.hosts
> - ----------------
> ;DNS-Format-Version-1
> ; Domains defined in this file:
> ; metta.lk.
> ; col7.metta.lk
> $ORIGIN metta.lk.
> @ IN SOA dhamma.metta.lk. root.metta.lk. (
> 8 ; serial
> 28800 ; refresh
> 7200 ; retry
> 604800 ; expire
> 86400 ; minimum
> )
> IN NS dhamma.metta.lk.
> IN NS server1.tradenetsl.lk.
>
> dhamma IN A 204.143.107.46
>
> IN A 204.143.107.46
>
> metta.lk. IN MX 10 dhamma.metta.lk.
>
> www IN CNAME dhamma.metta.lk.
>
> col7.metta.lk. IN A 172.16.1.1
> col7.metta.lk. IN MX 10 metta.lk. ;I'm not sure you need this
> col4.metta.lk. IN A 172.16.2.1
> col7.metta.lk. IN MX 10 metta.lk ;I'm not sure you need this
>
>
> /var/named.rev
> - --------------
> ;DNS-Format-Version-1
> ;
> ; Domains defined in this file:
> ; 107.143.204.in-addr.arpa.
> ;
> $ORIGIN 107.143.204.in-addr.arpa.
> @ IN SOA dhamma.metta.lk. root.dhamma.metta.lk. (
> 1 ; serial
> 28800 ; refresh
> 7200 ; retry
> 604800 ; expire
> 86400 ; minimum
> )
> IN NS dhamma.metta.lk.
> IN NS server1.tradenetsl.lk.
> 34 IN PTR server1.tradenetsl.lk.
> 46 IN PTR dhamma.metta.lk.
> - ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Here's the dig of your domain (metta.lk)
> as you can see, in the section where it lists, nameservers, dhamma is not
> listed.
> - ----------------------------------------------------------
[root@dhamma qmail-1.03]# ./config
Your hostname is dhamma.metta.lk.
soft error
Sorry, I couldn't find your host's canonical name in DNS.
You will have to set up control/me yourself.
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I modified as per your suggestion, but did not have a good result
The machine is a test machine which is not conneted to the NET
I shall update the DNS in the main machine later today.
perhaps you might get a different result if if you say
dig all metta.lk @tradenetsl.lk
