MacOS – Changed Lion Server’s host name and now unable to browse to that site

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(Without thinking much) I set up my Mac mini server and used an actual domain name I use as the computer's host name.

I've since changed the host name to something that isn't an actual website, but I'm unable to navigate to the original hostname/domain. I've tried changeip in the terminal as well, as well as flushed DNS in case it was cached there as well.

How do I get Lion to reach out to the WWW to find this domain?

Best Answer

I was able to fix this by removing this from /etc/named.conf

I'm now able to navigate to example.com.

zone "example.com" IN {
    type master;
    file "db.example.com";
    allow-transfer {
        none;
    };
    allow-update {
        none;
    };
};
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