From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 22 23:12:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA03923 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 23:12:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.insolwwb.net (ns.insolwwb.net [206.31.149.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA03914 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 23:12:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mgrommet@ns.insolwwb.net) Received: (from mgrommet@localhost) by ns.insolwwb.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) id AAA21334; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 00:52:01 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 00:52:00 -0500 (CDT) From: mike grommet To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Competitor's DNS misconfig, or mine? In-Reply-To: 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 Doug, thanks for the reply. I do have dns and bind, and am quite aware of the cname issue in reverse lookups, but apparently my competitor isnt :) In any case, things "mysteriously" started working so I would assume that my competitor finally figured it out. thanks again! On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Doug White wrote: > > 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