Hi Ceri, I understand why you would suggest that I add an A record for www.vickiandstacey.com in the zone and reverse files, but what remains with me is wondering *why* all was well earlier this morning - that is: I was able to resolve wwww.vickiandstacey.com, returning the external IP addr.., *and* able to resolve other local machines on the private lan (including Demon.vickiandstacey.com), returning local private IP addresses for them.
Upon my return from work (feeling rather pleased with myself too) I thought I'd like to see this again, but that's when I saw that I was now unable to resolve www.vickiandstacey.com (other Internet hosts were fine btw). With respect to you suggestion though, presuming that I am supposed to add the external IP address for Demon in the zone file, what then becomes of Demon's *internal* address? That is to say, running nslookup from another lan box I would like Demon's 192.168..... address returned, but running nslookup on www.vickiandstacey.com should return the *external address (which is what I saw earlier this morning). >From your e-mail advice last evening, I thought that the new set up I would attempting to implement would have then involved enabling my local boxes to use Demon to resolve local machine names, but for external addresses, my nameserver set-up would be such that these queries would then be passed to my ISP's NS's. Have I still got this concept wrong? Thanks for the encouraging words by the way, I do appreciate your efforts. Stacey On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 18:59, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 06:25:41PM +0100, Stacey Roberts wrote: > > Thanks Ceri, > > The reason why I shied away from renaming the domain for the > > private network, is because I actually *host* www.vickiandstacey.com on > > Demon.vickiandstacey.com, and I'm not certain as to how having changed > > the FQDN for private hosts would affect the webserver. > > Oh right, I see! > > In that case you'll probably want to be adding an A record for www > pretty sharpish! That's the reason that it's failing to resolve. > > Also, if you want mail working for [EMAIL PROTECTED], then also add > some MX records. > > > I do want to learn as much as I can for this set up, Ceri.., please be > > patient with me:-) > > No worries - don't get the impression that I'm losing patience, I'm not, > though sometimes I am rather terse and that gets misinterpreted :) > > Ceri > -- > you can't see when light's so strong > you can't see when light is gone -- Stacey Roberts B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science Web: www.vickiandstacey.com
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