Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:45:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Mike Grommet <mgrommet@insolwwb.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Competitor's DNS misconfig, or mine? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808222143580.20446-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <001201bdcc87$6fc86fe0$0cf896d0@work2.insolwwb.net>
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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
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