Re: [cobalt-users] DNS assistance requested

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:18 PM 2/15/00 -0500, you wrote:
> I am having a really tough time figuring out why my DNS is not working
> properly.

Okay, let's take it step by step:

<http://www.geektools.com/whois.html> reports:

Registrant:
   Aztec One Web Design Experts (AZTECONE2-DOM)
      1497 Main St. Suite 135
      Dunedin, FL 34698
      US

      Domain Name: AZTECONE.NET

      Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
         Host, Master  (HM900-ORG)  hostmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx
         727-712-0328
      Billing Contact:
         Host, Master  (HM900-ORG)  hostmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx
         727-712-0328

      Record last updated on 10-Feb-2000.
      Record created on 07-May-1998.
      Database last updated on 16-Feb-2000 09:53:17 EST.

      Domain servers in listed order:

      NS0.AZTECONE.NET             208.234.1.12
      NS1.GRANITECANYON.COM        205.166.226.38
      NS2.GRANITECANYON.COM        216.17.165.20

So yes, the root servers are pointing to your DNS server at 208.234.1.12.

But your root server is NOT running, and the secondary servers don't have 
any data for your domain.

> It has been about a week since the last of the name changes went through
> with NS, so it should be propagated.

It is.  Won't help if your server isn't serving.  Which it isn't.  It won't 
even find any of my domain, which are known good <wry grin>.

> I have my raq set up as host name ns0 and domain name aztecone.net. I also
> have a virtual host named ns0.aztecone.net that set itself up when I set up
> the network. and a virtual host named www.aztecone.net.
>
> My SOA is ns0.aztecone.net
>
> And then I have it set up so that aztecone.net points to the IP and
> www.aztecone.net points to the IP and the IP/19 points to www.aztecone.net
>
> I am not sure about the IP/19 because the admin file says that
>
> "Reverse address records with uneven octet network masks (i.e. not 8, 16, or
> 24) require the use of the reverse delegation method described in RFC2317 to
> be functional."

Reverse resolution has nothing to do with whether or not anyone can find 
your domain.  And you don't reverse delegate your space to anybody, your 
ISP either does it for you or delegates it to you.

> You can physically go to ns0.aztecone.net, but not anything other than that.

Noted.

> You can ping ns0.aztecone.net, but it says host unknown when I ping
> www.aztecone.net or aztecone.net.

You can't ping anything by name if you can't resolve it.  That's a 
given.  Can you ping the IP#s?

> I have been to all the usual sites and read the manual to death. Any help
> would be very appreciated. I have called Cobalt, but have not heard back
> yet. :(

The manual does NOT do, nor does it purport to do, the teaching of 
DNS.  It's a complex and complicated subject.  Cobalt supplies a 
tool.  Which I neither like nor use.

I heartily recommend the book "DNS and Bind" by Paul Albitz & Cricket 
Liu.  It's published by "O'Reilly".

We offer complete DNS consultation and outsourcing services (at 
<www.ns-one.net>).  If you'd like someone from outside your organization to 
set up DNS for you today so it works today, drop me an email, or call me at 
(909) 787-8589.

Jeff
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Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>