On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, William Perdue wrote: > It's my first time setting up a DNS server and I bought a book to help..... > in the line > > @ IN SOA @ root.localhost ( > > is the "root.localhost" part where you would you replace that with the name > of the DNS server?
Syntax questions are usually the easiest to answer by reading documentation. In this case, you need to think along the lines of "what goes in the second spot after the IN SOA record type." Be sure you also understand what goes in the first spot, too. :) The short answer is: no. A slightly longer answer is: "root.localhost" in this position designates the email address of the technical contact for this SOA, replacing the first dot with an "@" sign (which is a reserved character in this context). One comment on messing with DNS: Try to understand the examples your book is giving within the context in which they are supposed to work ... try not to approach this with a cookbook attitude. Your use of the term "the DNS server" suggests that you may still be in cookbook mode. Your real-life situation is likely to be rather different than their examples. :) > and then there's a > > ; servers > atlas IN A 192.168.1.255 > www CNAME atlas > > is the "atlas" part the name of the server your hosting? and does the "www" > "CNAME" and "atlas" part is the www the extention for the beginning like > in www.bob.net or talk.whatever.org? dns names that don't end in a period are assumed to have the current zone appended to them, so writing www CNAME atlas is like writing www.thisdomain.com. CNAME atlas.thisdomain.com. if @ represents thisdomain.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech