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Re: dnsServerHELP (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Sangrey)
Sat Nov 30 11:12:05 1996

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In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 30 Nov 1996 13:44:04 +1100."
             <Pine.LNX.3.95.961130134127.566H-100000@archenland.interweft.com.au> 
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 11:10:41 -0500
From: Mike Sangrey <mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us>
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Robert Hart wrote:

My question is: "Shouldn't there be periods at the end of each addresss?"  He 
has periods at the end of his FQDNs, but not at the end of his dotted quads.

> On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, Robert Dewitt wrote:
> 
> > I can't get this dns file to work for ramedia.com or www.ramedia.com.
> > Can anybody help please?????? This is an emergency. EXTREME gratitude
> > is given to any help I receive.
> > 
> > 
> > @       IN      SOA     dns.ramedia.com. root.dns.ramedia.com. (
> 	  ^^
> it should be just @SOA
> 
> >                         11962803        ;Serial
> >                         10800           ;Refresh
> >                         3600            ;Retry
> >                         43200           ;Expire
> >                         300)            ;Minimum
> > 
> > ;
> > ;	NameServers
> > ;	*********************************************************
> >                 	IN      NS      dns.ramedia.com.
> >                 	IN      NS      dns2.ramedia.com.
> > dns              	IN      A       207.211.14.30
> > dns2              	IN      A       207.211.14.31
> > ;
> > ;       MailServers
> > ;       *********************************************************
> >                 	IN      MX      10 dns.ramedia.com.
> >                 	IN      MX      5  mail.ramedia.com.
> > localhost       	IN 	A    	127.0.0.1
> > ramedia.com             IN      A       207.211.14.30
> > www			IN      A       207.211.14.30
> > ftp			IN	CNAME	dns.ramedia.com.
> > mail			IN	CNAME	dns.ramedia.com.
> 
> You should *not* use a CNAME for an MX - as this can result in mail
> loops...
> 
> > pop3			IN	CNAME	dns.ramedia.com.
> > news			IN	CNAME	dns.ramedia.com.
> 
> Apart from these, things look fine. It would help if you gave some
> hint of the error message named was giving - because there could be
> problems in named.boot about which we know nothing...
> 
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