I have been working on this issue on my ubuntu server 12 vm for hours. I got the zone file to read correctly by named earlier in the day then changed some syntax somewhere and could not figure out the issue so I used a web based PHP zone file creator and just plugged in a hosts file. This works, except for the raw domain itself. Other domains seem to work fine with nslookup such as google.com, amazon.com, etc. I have a domain that has been pointed to my IP for months. I have no problem looking it up from anywhere, but the DNS on my server is not working 100%. I can query nslookup for all hosts on my domain (www.example.com, mail.example.com, etc), except I cannot query for the domain itself (example.com). Reverse DNS works fine as well. The last line is the one I added which doesnt specify a host but I thought might help resolve example.com without a hostname. Here is the contents of my domain's zone file: ; BIND db file for example.com $TTL 86400 @ IN SOA lateralus.example.com. amplex.example.com. ( 2013012702 ; serial number YYMMDDNN 28800 ; Refresh 7200 ; Retry 864000 ; Expire 86400 ; Min TTL ) NS lateralus.example.com. MX 10 mail.example.com. $ORIGIN example.com. lateralus IN A 192.168.2.22 gw IN A 192.168.2.1 mail IN A 192.168.2.5 www IN CNAME lateralus IN CNAME lateralus Here is the output from nslookup: root@lateralus:/etc/bind/zones# nslookup example.com Server: 127.0.0.1 Address: 127.0.0.1#53 *** Can't find example.com: No answer root@lateralus:/etc/bind/zones# nslookup www.example.com Server: 127.0.0.1 Address: 127.0.0.1#53 www.example.com canonical name = lateralus.example.com. Name: lateralus.example.com Address: 192.168.2.22
