From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 18 03:00:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA29065 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 03:00:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (www.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA28989 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 02:59:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte@webmore.com) Received: from neuron.webmore.com (unverified [194.95.214.163]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 11:59:06 +0200 Received: (from malte@webmore.com) by neuron.webmore.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA00879; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 11:54:43 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 11:54:42 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: malte@webmore.com From: Malte Lance To: Brendan Kosowski Subject: RE: DNS question Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG neuron:# nslookup joebloggs.com Server: neuron.webmore.com Address: 192.168.250.5 *** No address (A) records available for joebloggs.com So do the suggested thing: In your zone-file @ in soa host1.joebloggs.com. brendan.host1.joebloggs.com. ( 1998042700 ; Serial 3600 ; Refresh 900 ; Retry 3600000 ; Expire 172800 ) ; Minimum in ns . in mx 10 . in mx 30 . ; for mailers ignoring MX-records in a 192.168.250.5 The last line with the IP-addr. does what you are looking for. Malte. On 18-Jun-98 Brendan Kosowski wrote: > > How do I set up a zone file so that any requests to a domain ( with no > hostname eg. joebloggs.com ) will automatically have a default hostname > added to it ( eg. host1.joebloggs.com ) ??? > > I have tried @ CNAME host1.joebloggs.com in my zone file and the DNS > worked OK, but It wouldn't let me do zone transfers or "ls joebloggs.com" > in nslookup. > > Thanks & Regards, Brendan > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Malte Lance Date: 18-Jun-98 Time: 10:59:52 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message