I've got DNS up and running for my domain and it works great. Except I'm unable to get one thing to work. How do you make the DNS server answer requests for just the domain name.

I wanted to make the www server answer a request for the domain. So if someone typed in www.example.com or example.com they would come to the same place.

I'm assuming that this all works through DNS although I guess it could possibly be handled by the web server.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers.

Ha figured it out. I think.

I gave the domain name an A record

like so

example.com. A 192.168.0.254

then I used CNAME records for the aliases.

www CNAME example.com.

Seems to be working ok.

I'm sure someone would have been able to help me out eventually.

If you have a trick to it or more info please let me know. Thanks.

In the zone file add entries for www and @. This works with the DNS and no need to add anything in httpd.conf. for eg:

@ IN A x.x.x.x
www IN CNAME @

So when you do a nslookup or dig on www.example.com and example.com you are directed to the same site.

Not sure what you mean by this. If you mean you want yur DNS server to answer only private domains then just delete the root.ca file and use the allow-query option.

Your dns server will be queried only if it has been listed as the primary or secondary name server for your domain or if someone knows you're running a dns server and uses it for resolving addresses.

hope this helps