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From: trien@mei.com (Trien Le)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Specifying an IP address for a domain.
Date: 12 Aug 1995 14:23:01 GMT
Organization: Marquette Electronics Inc.
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In article <daveDD5ruF.M2y@netcom.com>, dave@netcom.com says...
>
>I have a working domain (calldei.com) with several aliases
>and hosts at different  IP addresses. 
>I can't, however, figure out to get calldei.com itself
>assigned to an IP address.  There is nothing I can find
>in namedb to do this, yet it must be obvious to someone!
>I have  dei.calldei.com working, (nslookup dei.calldei.com)
>but I cant get just plain 'calldei.com' to work. 
>(nslookup calldei.com  just returns 'NO A record for host/domain')
>

 Add this to your domain.db
;
;
calldei.com.	IN	A	xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
		IN 	MX	0 dei.calldei.com.

: of course replace xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with your IP addr.