From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 14 21:09:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FA6916A4CE for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:09:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail4.dslextreme.com (mail4.dslextreme.com [66.51.199.93]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 47A5043D2D for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:09:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmlewis@dslextreme.com) Received: (qmail 3614 invoked from network); 14 Sep 2004 21:09:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO www.dslextreme.com) (66.51.199.92) by 192.168.8.81 with SMTP; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:09:54 +0000 Message-ID: <1734a1393ea75f3a9c9fa.20040914140955.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> In-Reply-To: <41473751.7050601@daleco.biz> References: <459caf8e8a2706aceb8a.20040914110554.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> <41473751.7050601@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:09:55 -0700 (PDT) From: "Joshua Lewis" To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: DSL Extreme Webmail (www.dslextreme.com) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal cc: freeBSD-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS config problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jmlewis@dslextreme.com List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:09:55 -0000 > Why don't you head over to dnsreport.com and enter your domain > name there? Neat tool, will tell you more than I can.... This looks like a good tool to use. Thanks. Thank you, Joshua Lewis Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. > Joshua Lewis wrote: > >>I don't think I have set up Bind9 correctly and I was hoping someone >> could >>point out any mistakes I may have made. >> > I'm no expert, either. Using dig, nslookup, host, and so on, I did > find one error. Somewhere you have a record pointing to a > "somehost.local" as an NS. That won't work ;) Try > "dig yourdomain.com" and see for yourself... > > Also, your ISP (dslextreme?) seems to be handling your reverse > DNS, so you don't need to mess with that ... nobody out here will > ever see it, I don't think. > > Why don't you head over to dnsreport.com and enter your domain > name there? Neat tool, will tell you more than I can.... > > Kevin Kinsey > >