Hostname question
- Thread starter Nalco
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For some reason, the option to edit my above post is not available.
I had received the following email from cpanel:
IMPORTANT: Do not ignore this email.
The hostname (host.hostname.com) resolves to . It should resolve to xx.xxx.xx.xx. Please be sure to correct /etc/hosts as well as the 'A' entry in zone file for the domain.
Some or all of these problems can be caused by /etc/resolv.conf being setup incorrectly. Please check this file if you believe everything else is correct.
You may be able to automaticly correct this problem by using the ' Add an A entry for your hostname ' under ' Dns Functions ' in your Web Host Manager
I knew my "Hosts" and "resolv.conf files were good.
I hadn't read the email correctly, and was wondering whether or not I had to add an "A" entry for host.hostname.com in the DNS Zone for each domain, or to create a separate zone just for the host.
As it turned out, there was no zone for host.hostname.com at all, though there were zones for each domain.
I was able to fix my problem by re-reading the email I received, particularly this part:
You may be able to automaticly correct this problem by using the ' Add an A entry for your hostname ' under ' Dns Functions ' in your Web Host Manager
By going to "DNS Functions/Add an entry for your hostname", the non existent hostname zone was created and thus the problem fixed.
Sorry about deleting the original post. After I posted, I re-read it, and realized that the answer was right in my own question.
For some reason, the option to edit my above post is not available.
I had received the following email from cpanel:
IMPORTANT: Do not ignore this email.
The hostname (host.hostname.com) resolves to . It should resolve to xx.xxx.xx.xx. Please be sure to correct /etc/hosts as well as the 'A' entry in zone file for the domain.
Some or all of these problems can be caused by /etc/resolv.conf being setup incorrectly. Please check this file if you believe everything else is correct.
You may be able to automaticly correct this problem by using the ' Add an A entry for your hostname ' under ' Dns Functions ' in your Web Host Manager
I knew my "Hosts" and "resolv.conf files were good.
I hadn't read the email correctly, and was wondering whether or not I had to add an "A" entry for host.hostname.com in the DNS Zone for each domain, or to create a separate zone just for the host.
As it turned out, there was no zone for host.hostname.com at all, though there were zones for each domain.
I was able to fix my problem by re-reading the email I received, particularly this part:
You may be able to automaticly correct this problem by using the ' Add an A entry for your hostname ' under ' Dns Functions ' in your Web Host Manager
By going to "DNS Functions/Add an entry for your hostname", the non existent hostname zone was created and thus the problem fixed.
Sorry about deleting the original post. After I posted, I re-read it, and realized that the answer was right in my own question.
Thanks Nalco! I have done the same thing myself where an answer might be right in front of me but I just cant see it
Now, if anyone else ever has a question re: that e-mail, they'll be able to learn from this thread.I bet your pardon
Sure, you have my pardon.
If you have any questions, please PM me.Regards,
Hi,
I got the same email.
Last night it all seemed to work ok?
I have added the domain i.e. mydomain.co.uk and there is a DNS zone created for this domain but there is no DNS zone for my hostname host.mydomain.co.uk
Just to clarify do I need to add a new zone for the domain:
host.mydomain.co.uk and assign that to my primary IP address. When this is done do I also need to add an A entry for this?
Maybe I have confused myself by creating an account for mydomain.co.uk. Is this something I needed to do at all considering I don't actaully need any services to run through this domain?
Thanks
I got the same email.
Last night it all seemed to work ok?
I have added the domain i.e. mydomain.co.uk and there is a DNS zone created for this domain but there is no DNS zone for my hostname host.mydomain.co.uk
Just to clarify do I need to add a new zone for the domain:
host.mydomain.co.uk and assign that to my primary IP address. When this is done do I also need to add an A entry for this?
Maybe I have confused myself by creating an account for mydomain.co.uk. Is this something I needed to do at all considering I don't actaully need any services to run through this domain?
Thanks
Dan
Moderator
Hello bozboz,
If your nameservers are live with your registrar then you can do a dig against them using one of your nameserver and dig the host name.
If not then you should now have a host.domain.com.db file in the /var/named folder. If you take a look in that file you'll find nothing more than the A record for your hostname. When you take your nameservers live this A record will be served up along with the rest of them.
FYI the contents of the file should look something like this
If your nameservers are live with your registrar then you can do a dig against them using one of your nameserver and dig the host name.
If not then you should now have a host.domain.com.db file in the /var/named folder. If you take a look in that file you'll find nothing more than the A record for your hostname. When you take your nameservers live this A record will be served up along with the rest of them.
FYI the contents of the file should look something like this
Code:
; cPanel 10.9.0-BETA_137
; Zone file for host.domain.com
$TTL 14400
@ 86400 IN SOA nsx.domain.com. email.domain.com. (
2007030801 ; serial, todays date+todays
86400 ; refresh, seconds
7200 ; retry, seconds
3600000 ; expire, seconds
86400 ) ; minimum, seconds
host.domain.com. 86400 IN NS nsx.domain.com.
host.domain.com. 86400 IN NS nsx.domain.com.
host.domain.com. IN A x.x.x.x
localhost.host.domain.com. IN A 127.0.0.1
host.domain.com. IN MX 0 host.domain.com.Thanks for the file - that helps a lot,
I did a dig at http://www.kloth.net/services/dig.php
with the following info:
Domain: host.mydomain.co.uk
Server: ns1.mydomain.co.uk
Query: A (IP address)
This came back with (I have replaced the real domain with mydomain):
; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> @ns1.mydomain.co.uk host.mydomain.co.uk A
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 62487
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;host.mydomain.co.uk. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
host.mydomain.co.uk. 14400 IN A xx.xxx.5.xxx
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
mydomain.co.uk. 86400 IN NS ns1.mydomain.co.uk.
mydomain.co.uk. 86400 IN NS ns2.mydomain.co.uk.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.mydomain.co.uk. 14400 IN A xx.xxx.5.xxx
ns2.mydomain.co.uk. 14400 IN A xx.xxx.6.xxx
;; Query time: 132 msec
;; SERVER: xx.xxx.5.xxx#53(xx.xxx.5.xxx)
;; WHEN: Wed Oct 8 19:40:57 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 119
I hope this looks correct.
Now when I put http://mydomain.co.uk or host.mydomain.co.uk in a browser I get the:
Great Success !
Apache is working on your cPanel® and WHM™ Server
screen.
www.mydomain.co.uk doesn't go anywere but I assume this is because I have not set up an account in WHM for mydomain.co.uk.
Do I need to do this. I don't really need a website at mydomain.co.uk but should I do this so that I have an email address that corresponds to my nameservers?
I did a dig at http://www.kloth.net/services/dig.php
with the following info:
Domain: host.mydomain.co.uk
Server: ns1.mydomain.co.uk
Query: A (IP address)
This came back with (I have replaced the real domain with mydomain):
; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> @ns1.mydomain.co.uk host.mydomain.co.uk A
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 62487
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;host.mydomain.co.uk. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
host.mydomain.co.uk. 14400 IN A xx.xxx.5.xxx
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
mydomain.co.uk. 86400 IN NS ns1.mydomain.co.uk.
mydomain.co.uk. 86400 IN NS ns2.mydomain.co.uk.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.mydomain.co.uk. 14400 IN A xx.xxx.5.xxx
ns2.mydomain.co.uk. 14400 IN A xx.xxx.6.xxx
;; Query time: 132 msec
;; SERVER: xx.xxx.5.xxx#53(xx.xxx.5.xxx)
;; WHEN: Wed Oct 8 19:40:57 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 119
I hope this looks correct.
Now when I put http://mydomain.co.uk or host.mydomain.co.uk in a browser I get the:
Great Success !
Apache is working on your cPanel® and WHM™ Server
screen.
www.mydomain.co.uk doesn't go anywere but I assume this is because I have not set up an account in WHM for mydomain.co.uk.
Do I need to do this. I don't really need a website at mydomain.co.uk but should I do this so that I have an email address that corresponds to my nameservers?
Dan
Moderator
Bozboz,
Looks to me like you've got it going!
You do not really need an email address that coincides with the domain, no but I created an account for it just in case. I do not know what would happen if/when the DNS system went to look up that domain, saw it was pointed to my server, but that the domain didn't exist on my server. So I gave it a minimal amount of disk space/bandwidth and called it good.
And you're welcome
Looks to me like you've got it going!
You do not really need an email address that coincides with the domain, no but I created an account for it just in case. I do not know what would happen if/when the DNS system went to look up that domain, saw it was pointed to my server, but that the domain didn't exist on my server. So I gave it a minimal amount of disk space/bandwidth and called it good.
And you're welcome