From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 1 22:57:24 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 3ABD0106564A for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 22:57:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ns1.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9D308FC13 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 22:57:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o91MvIMu004706; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 15:57:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 15:57:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 15:57:17 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Greg Larkin Message-ID: <20101001225717.GA83457@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> <4CA3EB8B.3050701@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CA3EB8B.3050701@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=3.9 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on ethic.thought.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Jon Radel 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: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 22:57:24 -0000 On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 09:44:43PM -0400, Greg Larkin wrote: > -----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 > Well, long-story-short, yes and no. I changed the IP addr to the same as my firewall's and was able to ping ns1.thought.org .... but that created other errors that I didn't understand. Plus, it disabled mail both incoming and outgoing. Back to square 0. gary > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org