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From: vixie@vix.com (Paul A Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: DNS and BIND....  HELP!!!!!!  QUICK!!!!!
Date: 03 Feb 1996 03:33:39 GMT
Organization: Vixie Enterprises
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In-reply-to: cdaly@star32.net@'s message of Thu, 1 Feb 1996 22:23:18 GMT

> From: cdaly@star32.net@

Did you know that you are not supposed to have more than one @ in an e-mail
address?

>We have a primary server and we have a machine hooked up by
>a 10 base T ethernet cable.  We are trying to get the second machine
>set up to host two WWW pages with their own domain names.  The 
>pages can be called up by typing in their IP addresses, but I cannot
>figure out how to get them to come up when i type the domain name
>(http://www.whatever.bla).  The primary is running BSDI 2.0.1 and the
>second machine runs win nt workstation with communication builder
>as the web server and metainfo 1.2 as the dns server software.

Sounds like your primary zone file is not properly set up, or you have
not properly registered your domain with the InterNIC.

>Please help!!!  Quickly!!!

There is no quick fix, nor any substitute for understanding what you are
doing.  http://www.isc.org/isc/ will lead you to the BOG, which can help.
Or you can buy the "DNS and BIND" book from O'Reilly and Associates, which
can help even more.

>PS.. BSDI tech support had the nerve to say 'i could explain it,
>but it would take six hours on the phone'.

That wasn't very professional.  But it sounds like it was very true.
-- 
Paul Vixie
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