Re: DNS problems, can't ping domain
On Wednesday 17 July 2002 02:22 pm, Mike Egglestone wrote:
> Hi,
> I have recently just registered a domain name.
> "etalon.net"
> My dns server (sid) is setup and is believed to be working OK.
> I have a CNAME pointing to www and mail
>
> I can ping mail.etalon.net and www.etalon.net
> but I can't ping etalon.net
> I'm not sure where to troubleshoot this.
> I've read the linuxdoc.org dns how to's and googled.
> Is it my dns server that may be the problem? or is it
> something to do with the root dns servers?
> or maybe my ISP?
> Basically, everthing seems to work except "etalon.net" doesn't
> resolve to an IP.
>
> Any help to fix this would be great!!
>
[snip]
since etalon.net isn't actually a configured machine, it can't respond. try
using host or dig if you just want to check the config of etalon.net.
basically, you don't actually have a problem since you do get a response from
www and mail.
ben
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