RE: [cobalt-users] RaQ3 DNS NS swap?

["Dan Kriwitsky" <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Last night I was working on one of my sites: www.riordon.org.
> Everything worked fine.
>
> Tonight when I go to take a look at it I discover that it is pointing
> to where I used to host it 6 months ago.
>
> Perhaps someone could check out the various DNS records for me. I
> have done my due diligence (I think) and can find nothing strange on
> my server.
>
> Domain: www.riordon.org
> Primary - ns1.amigo-3.com
> Secondary - ns1.netnation.com
> Registered with Network Solutions
> My RaQs IP - 216.13.247.247 (also the IP of the primary NS)
>
> You will notice that most DNS servers claim that the primary is
> ns1.netnation.com and the secondary is ns2.netnation.com. This is
> what it used to be many months ago.
>
> I am at a loss on this one. Any suggestions or ideas of things I
> could try would be great. Any idea why this might have happened would
> be nice too.
>

The info at ns1.netnation.com conflicts with what ns1.amigo-3.com has. It's
possible that ns1.amigo-3.com was down and it defaulted to ns1.netnation.com
which has the wrong info. That was now cached. If you don't have permission
from netnation.com to use them as your secondary, you're liable to get wrong
info. They might have been lazy and when you hosted with them, if you did,
they just left your old info in their DNS when you moved.

Using my ISP's DNS:
--- DNS lookup for "riordon.org", please wait...
--- contacting nameserver: 24.2.3.33 [24.2.3.33]

Non-authoritative answer:
riordon.org	NS	ns1.netnation.com
riordon.org	NS	ns2.netnation.com

Authoritative answers can be found from:
riordon.org	NS	ns1.netnation.com
riordon.org	NS	ns2.netnation.com
ns1.netnation.com	A	204.174.223.1
ns2.netnation.com	A	204.174.223.31

--- dns lookup completed

Now your old ISP:
--- DNS lookup for "riordon.org", please wait...
--- contacting nameserver: ns1.netnation.com [204.174.223.1]

riordon.org	NS	ns1.netnation.com
riordon.org	NS	ns2.netnation.com
riordon.org	MX	10  mail.riordon.org
riordon.org	SOA
    origin = ns1.netnation.com
    mail addr = hostmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    serial = 2000110200
    refresh = 14400 (4 hours)
    retry = 1800 (30 mins)
    expire = 3600000 (41 days 16 hours)
    minimum ttl = 43200 (12 hours)
riordon.org	A	216.13.247.247
riordon.org	NS	ns1.netnation.com
riordon.org	NS	ns2.netnation.com
ns1.netnation.com	A	204.174.223.1
ns2.netnation.com	A	204.174.223.31
mail.riordon.org	A	216.13.247.247

--- dns lookup completed

Your current ISP:

--- DNS lookup for "riordon.org", please wait...
--- contacting nameserver: NS1.AMIGO-3.COM [216.13.247.247]

riordon.org	MX	30  www.riordon.org
riordon.org	NS	ns1.amigo-3.com
riordon.org	NS	ns1.netnation.com
riordon.org	SOA
    origin = ns1.amigo-3.com
    mail addr = admin@xxxxxxxxxxx
    serial = 2000110203
    refresh = 10800 (3 hours)
    retry = 3600 (1 hour)
    expire = 604800 (7 days)
    minimum ttl = 86400 ()
riordon.org	A	216.13.247.247
riordon.org	NS	ns1.amigo-3.com
riordon.org	NS	ns1.netnation.com
www.riordon.org	A	216.13.247.247
ns1.amigo-3.com	A	216.13.247.247
ns1.netnation.com	A	204.174.223.1

--- dns lookup completed

The web sites appear to both point to the same IP. Your MX records look
different though.
--
Dan Kriwitsky