--------------- bind box -------------- $TTL 100000000 @ IN SOA vaio.home. hostmaster.home. ( 1 ; Serial 28800 ; Refresh 14400 ; Retry 604800 ; Expire - 1 week 86400 ) ; Minimum IN NS vaio.home. IN MX 10 mail.home. IN A 192.168.10.125 vaio.home IN A 192.168.10.125 audiocore.home IN A 192.168.10.2 ------------ client box ---------------- root@Knoppix:~# nslookup audiocore Server: 192.168.10.125 Address: 192.168.10.125#53 ** server can't find audiocore: NXDOMAIN root@Knoppix:~# nslookup audiocore.home Server: 192.168.10.125 Address: 192.168.10.125#53 Name: audiocore.home Address: 192.168.10.2