zone file

[Whitley CTR Cecil H]

Hi,
The syntax I am familiar with looks like this:
1. assumption this is for zone mydomain.com
2.  assumption upstream soa is correct and points to ns1 as primary
nameserver

ns1 IN NS
ns2 IN NS

ns1 IN A 192.168.1.1
ns2 IN A 192.168.1.2
www IN CNAME ns1 # mydomain.com is implicit
www IN CNAME ns1.mydomain.com. # also valid, same as above
mailer IN CNAME www.hotmail.com. #points mailer.mydomain.com to hotmail

Regards,
Cecil