From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 30 01:44:57 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03AE0106566C for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 01:44:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glarkin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail1.sourcehosting.net (113901-app1.sourcehosting.net [72.32.213.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1F408FC1A for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 01:44:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 68-189-245-235.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com ([68.189.245.235] helo=cube.entropy.prv) by mail1.sourcehosting.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1P18CY-000B8U-Fc; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:44:55 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (fireball.entropy.prv [192.168.1.12]) by cube.entropy.prv (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19EE14579868; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:44:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4CA3EB8B.3050701@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:44:43 -0400 From: Greg Larkin Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Radel References: <20100928162839.GA32198@thought.org> <7B0DAD9C-ED75-4188-9407-F86F44C94F47@cwis.biz> <19639A29-A22D-474B-8CD6-E62D2A4CCB15@cwis.biz> <4CA2D921.2080402@ose.nl> <20100929202423.GB13004@thought.org> <4CA3AC31.2060703@radel.com> In-Reply-To: <4CA3AC31.2060703@radel.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: id=1C940290 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -0.3 (/) Cc: Gary Kline , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what is from [sic (wrong)] with this picture? -- Answer: It's Ubuntu, not FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: glarkin@FreeBSD.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 01:44:57 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jon Radel wrote: > On 9/29/10 4:24 PM, Gary Kline wrote: >> Yes! changing the line in main.cf lets things get thru to my >> server cleanly, thanks for the tip. I still don't understand >> what's wrong with my DNS files. Hopefully, other folk on-list >> will see what's messed up. > > Your domain registrar is having your dns delegated to 3 nameservers: > > thought.org. 86400 IN NS ns1.thought.org. > thought.org. 86400 IN NS ns1.silvertree.org. > thought.org. 86400 IN NS ns1.twisted4life.com. > ;; Received 142 bytes from 2001:500:48::1#53(b2.org.afilias-nst.org) in > 32 ms > > The last of the 3, ns1.twisted4life.com, is of the opinion that your > domain doesn't exist, given that it has no authoritative data and > refuses to do recursive lookups for the Internet at large. I would > suspect that this would result in the coming and going visibility that > others have reported. Basically, you don't exist a third of the time. > > You need to make sure that all the nameservers you list with your > registrar are actually admitting to your existence and are getting > up-to-date data. I recall having this conversation with you before. > The first thing I would do is check the results of the DNS scan here (http://www.dnscog.com/report/thought.org) and fix all of the listed problems. Keep iterating until the report is clean, or at least doesn't have any red flags on it. I've used this service successfully for a while now to debug DNS problems. Hope that helps, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. http://twitter.com/sourcehosting/ - Follow me, follow you -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFMo+uL0sRouByUApARAlrCAJ9wOlsjn3he03B+dOwrexWYxwm8aQCgvaLx 2Dcr9cD1dzW0PuOyOGIUFfQ= =PM9u -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----