** Can't find nutthause.com: No answer

[Stephen Nutt]

How do I fix the problem that there doesn't seem to be any dns info answer no ip address for nutthause.com. dig and nslookup return no ip address for nutthause,com. Please advise how to correct this. This is new.

DIG:
dig nutthause.com

; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-3ubuntu0.14-Ubuntu <<>> nutthause.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10794
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;nutthause.com. IN A

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.1.1#53(127.0.1.1)
;; WHEN: Sat May 06 00:18:38 PDT 2017
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 31

NSLOOKUP:
nslookup nutthause.com
Server: 127.0.1.1
Address: 127.0.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
*** Can't find nutthause.com: No answer

Here are my dns records:
;
; ZoneEdit
; TotalDNS Engine ZONE FILE ver 1.0
;
; nutthause.com
;
; generated: 06-May-2017 03:17:01 local time
; 06-May-2017 07:17:01 GMT
;

$ORIGIN nutthause.com.
$TTL 300
;
; ZoneEdit
; TotalDNS Engine ZONE FILE ver 1.0
;
; nutthause.com
;
; generated: 06-May-2017 03:17:01 local time
; 06-May-2017 07:17:01 GMT
;

$ORIGIN nutthause.com.
$TTL 300
@ IN SOA dns0.zoneedit.com. zone.zoneedit.com. 1494055021 3600 600 604800 300
@ IN NS dns1.zoneedit.com.
@ IN NS dns2.zoneedit.com.
@ IN MX 0 mx-caprica.zoneedit.com.
* IN A 98.164.238.85
helios IN A 98.164.238.85 ; DYNAMIC/ONLINE
media IN A 98.164.238.85 ; DYNAMIC/ONLINE
media2 IN A 98.164.238.85 ; DYNAMIC/ONLINE
silo-omv IN A 98.164.238.85 ; DYNAMIC/ONLINE
silo2-omv IN A 98.164.238.85 ; DYNAMIC/ONLINE
www IN A 98.164.238.85 ; DYNAMIC/ONLINE

; END OF ZONE FILE



@ IN SOA dns0.zoneedit.com. zone.zoneedit.com. 1494055021 3600 600 604800 300
@ IN NS dns1.zoneedit.com.
@ IN NS dns2.zoneedit.com.
@ IN MX 0 mx-caprica.zoneedit.com.
* IN A 98.164.238.85
helios IN A 98.164.238.85 ; DYNAMIC/ONLINE
media IN A 98.164.238.85 ; DYNAMIC/ONLINE
media2 IN A 98.164.238.85 ; DYNAMIC/ONLINE
silo-omv IN A 98.164.238.85 ; DYNAMIC/ONLINE
silo2-omv IN A 98.164.238.85 ; DYNAMIC/ONLINE
www IN A 98.164.238.85 ; DYNAMIC/ONLINE

; END OF ZONE FILE


Thanks

 

[El.]

Hello,

You do not have a dynamic DNS record, or any record, for the root domain name.

You need to specify @ for the root domain name.

Other records resolve.

For instance:

dig something.nutthause.com

; <<>> DiG 9.8.4-rpz2+rl005.12-P1 <<>> something.nutthause.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 38190
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 4

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;something.nutthause.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
something.nutthause.com. 300 IN A 98.164.238.85

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
nutthause.com. 557 IN NS dns1.zoneedit.com.
nutthause.com. 557 IN NS dns2.zoneedit.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
dns1.zoneedit.com. 214 IN A 31.220.0.12
dns1.zoneedit.com. 203 IN AAAA 2a00:1ca8:2c::1:1686
dns2.zoneedit.com. 214 IN A 166.88.18.58
dns2.zoneedit.com. 203 IN AAAA 2607:f358:1:ffc0::11

;; Query time: 75 msec
;; SERVER: 64.68.199.53#53(64.68.199.53)
;; WHEN: Sat May 6 19:25:42 2017
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 192

 

[Stephen Nutt]

El,
Thanks for the information I added the "@" record back for the domain and it is now working, but you already knew it would.
I guess I must have changed it when I created the * card dns record. Not know how it would change the @ record.

I have a question in one of the videos it was said that www is usually an alias to the domain root, and it is expressed as
www Alias CNAME DomainName.
but I have named one of my host
www Dynamic Host IP address.

Can I still use the www Alias CNAME DomainName. record configuration to point as an alias to the domain root without causing confusion with the www dynamic host?
Is there any advantage to using the www as a alias for the domain? Will my host www still resolve to its address?

In addition I want to setup a seperate ip address for one of my host which is at a different location and a different ip address, but it will still use the nutthause,com domain. How do I do this within this dns record?

 

[El.]

Hello,

Yes, you can still create a Cname for www and point it to the root domain name, without any confusion.

You can also set up another host name, like example.nutthause.com. as an A record, and point it to the IP address you wish.