DNS Resolving domain.com without the ‘www’

[Anonymous]

We have a few DNS zones running on 10.3.9 Server. We have a A record for http://www.domain.com pointing to our internal webserver. The NS record is setup correctly. We also have reverse look up setup.

The problem is when a user tries domain.com without the ‘www’ it doesn’t resolve. I tried to do a cname ‘domain.com’ to point to the IP but that didn’t work.

What am I missing?

[vagabond]

As macshome pointed out, you can’t do this in server admin. Edit the zone file for your domain (in /var/named) to include this:

domain.com. IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

It can’t be a CNAME (for whatever reason it’s improper syntax in the BIND world). Don’t forget the period after domain.com, otherwise it will add it as a subdomain.

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