WWW Domain Name Resolution Problem

Re: WWW Domain Name Resolution Problem

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Do you have both the zone name and www.zone defined in your DNS data?
In other words, for the zone example.com, you might create the
following records:

example.com. A 192.168.0.1
www.example.com. CNAME example.com.

Alternatively, you could use these two records:

example.com. A 192.168.0.1
www.example.com. A 192.168.0.1

Either way, the result is essentially the same.
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Chris Buxton Men & Mice
cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy!

At 9:21 AM -0700 8/17/01, Dan Kirsch wrote:
>I'm running QuickDNS on a Mac OSXS 10.0.4 server. I've setup about 75
>virtual domains and I thought that all was well until I checked a couple
>of things.
>
>I have OSXS on one hard drive, and created hosted file
>folders on a second drive. During the OSXS setup I did designate these
>folders as the location for site files (through OSXS Web Server
>Configuration), and had no problems with the QuickDNS setup. Last night
>I realized that what I thought was each of the sites loading the
>temporary index.html page that I'd placed in each site's folder, was in
>fact the sample index.html file that loads into OSXS' /Library/WebServer
>folder during installation.
>
>So, my symptoms are that if I try to access any of these sites via a
>browser and
>have the "www" in the URL, the site
>doesn't load. If I drop the "www" from the URL, the sites all load
>properly. In
>short, it seems as if for some reason I'm unable to resolve a site
>with "www" in
>the URL.
>
>I'm wondering if there is something that I need to check in QuickDNS as
>so far I've been unable to find anything that has been missed in OSXS.
>Given the GUI there to cover the Apache setup, my assumption would have
>been that if I was able to access the site at all that the OSXS setup
>would be complete (there is only one file location designation which is
>supposed to cover both "www" and non-URL versions). Which leaves me
>wondering if I've simply missed something during the QuickDNS setup?
>
>Thanks!
>
>
>Dr. Dan Kirsch
>Hudson Associates Consulting, Inc.

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