[plug] Help with DNS

[James Andrewartha]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Brian Tombleson wrote:

> I'm looking at hosting a second domain on the same machine that I already
> have a domain setup  & configured for.
> 
> I have a few issues and think I've overlooked something simple ..
> 
> To have duplicate mail, web and NS services, I thought the steps were:
> 
> BIND 8.2.3:
> Add a new zone to my /etc/named.conf and appropriate file in /var/named with
> the same RR's as the first but with the different domain name, then restart
> named
> Notify my seconder of the new zone
> 
> My named spits saying :
> Apr 27 10:25:27 paradigmit named[20181]: newdomain.com.au:2: SOA for
> "newdomain.com.au" not at zone top "newdomain.com.au.\032"
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Zone file is:
> $TTL 86400
> newdomain.com.au.       IN      SOA     newdomain.com.au.

Try using @ instead of newdomain.com.au. here

> admin.newdomain.com.au. (
>                         2001042710
>                         86400
>                         3600
>                         1209600
>                         38400 )
> ;
> ; I am my own name server.
> ;
>         IN      NS      newdomain.com.au.
>         IN      NS      ns1.telstra.net.

And putting the A and MX records here.

> ;
> ; Aliases of my system.
> ;
> www     IN      CNAME   newdomain.com.au.
> mail    IN      CNAME   newdomain.com.au.
> ftp     IN      CNAME   newdomain.com.au.
> ns1     IN      CNAME   newdomain.com.au.
> ;
> ; Machines on my network
> ;
> newdomain.com.au.                       IN      A       203.47.21.101
> ;
> ; Here's where the mail goes
> ;
> newdomain.com.au.                       IN      MX      10 newdomain.com.au.


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