From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 22 21:46:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA27216 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:46:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA27210 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:46:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA03626; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:45:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:45:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Mike Grommet cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Competitor's DNS misconfig, or mine? In-Reply-To: <001201bdcc87$6fc86fe0$0cf896d0@work2.insolwwb.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Mike Grommet wrote: > I have recently transferred several virtual domains to another web hosting > service, but my nameserver does not see the domains on look up (none of the > ones I've transferred to this one hosting service). The interesting thing > is that I have transferred other domains to other hosts and havent had this > problem so I'm having difficullty accepting that its my problem, but hey it > could be I guess. I will outline what I see below: I assume that you were previously serving DNS for the domains. Did you remove them from your DNS zone files, increase the serial number, and restarted named? > ok, so then I do a nslookup for www.chesserrealty.com from my name server I > get > No match for "WWW.CHESSERREALTY.COM". > > of course I cant ping em or traceroute them since I cant look them up :) > so now this is weird. these domains have been transferred for quite a > long long time. I got to looking in my log files and I see lots of > entries like this: > > Aug 15 14:26:56 ns named[11593]: "151.21.208.in-addr.arpa IN NS" points to a > CNAME (ns1.grnco.net) You cannot have a reverse record pointing to a CNAME, it must point to an A record. Fix your zone file and restart named. If you don't already have it the O'Reily book 'DNS and BIND' is amust-buy for DNS admins. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message