From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 30 19:29:02 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 AD9A0106566C for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:29:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F13C48FC1A for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:29:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EF527E80809; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:29:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:29:05 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Jon Radel Message-ID: <20100930192905.GB15259@thought.org> 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CA3AC31.2060703@radel.com> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: 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 List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:29:02 -0000 On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 05:14:25PM -0400, 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. > > -- If we did discuss this, it had nothing to do with the 3rd nameserver. twisted4life is something i added only a day or two ago; it was among the first googled. i haven't checked anything DNS-wise in the past day because of other things I Am trying to resolve. > > --Jon Radel > jon@radel.com > > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org