OFF TOPIC Re: [cobalt-users] Calling European/Aussie domain pointing help?

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carrie Bartkowiak wrote:

> If you wish to use it as a DNS server,
> then the DNS administrator of hawke.allaboutchoice.com needs to configure it
> to know about deepblueweb.com.au, BEFORE you re-submit this delegation
> form."

Actually, it looks like it is authoritative:

  [admin@joshua admin]$ nslookup
  Default Server:  joshua.ez-access.com
  Address:  216.116.124.170
  
  > server hawke.allaboutchoice.com
  Default Server:  hawke.allaboutchoice.com
  Address:  208.155.66.220
  
  > deepblueweb.com.au
  Server:  hawke.allaboutchoice.com
  Address:  208.155.66.220
  
  Name:    deepblueweb.com.au
  Address:  208.155.72.24
  
  > set type=ns
  > deepblueweb.com.au
  Server:  hawke.allaboutchoice.com
  Address:  208.155.66.220
  
  deepblueweb.com.au      nameserver = hawke.allaboutchoice.com
  deepblueweb.com.au      nameserver = raven.allaboutchoice.com
  hawke.allaboutchoice.com        internet address = 208.155.66.220
  > exit

However, your whois record for allaboutchoice.com shows that raven &
hawke are the nameservers for the domain:

   Domain servers in listed order:
      RAVEN.ALLABOUTCHOICE.COM
      HAWKE.ALLABOUTCHOICE.COM

But look what happens when I try to lookup the nameservers using
themselves:

  [admin@joshua admin]$ nslookup
  Default Server:  joshua.ez-access.com
  Address:  216.116.124.170
  
  > server raven.allaboutchoice.com
  Default Server:  raven.allaboutchoice.com
  Address:  208.155.66.219
  
  > raven.allaboutchoice.com
  Server:  raven.allaboutchoice.com
  Address:  208.155.66.219
  
  *** raven.allaboutchoice.com can't find raven.allaboutchoice.com:
Non-existent host/domain
  > exit

Looks to me like your nameservers aren't set up properly.

> Both
> name servers are in her SOA, so I don't know where to go from here. But like
> I said, I'll look for your posts from the last couple of days and see if
> it's covered there, and dig around on SOA in the archives.

But the nameservers themselves aren't set up correctly <frown>.

> ||>Or you can host your DNS elsewhere, with someone who knows DNS well
> ||>enough so these and other issues don't bite you.
> 
> It's a pain, but I *want* them to bite me, otherwise I won't know how to fix
> them. :)

Okay.  Do you want the domain to be a learning experience or a working
one <smile>?  It's your call <smile, again>.

And no, we're absolutely not cost-effective for only one domain,
although we do host DNS for several "single-domains", simply because the
companies want good DNS.

> Are you getting the feeling yet that I'm a real hands-on kind of person?

Yes <smile>.

> I was 9 when I got my first Commodore64 and I've been eyebrow-deep in PCs ever
> since.

They came out somewhere around 1979 or 80, right <smile>.  I was in my
30s by then.  I did have the second TRS-80 model I sold in San
Francisco, though <smile>.

I wrote a version of PILOT that was ported to the Commodore Pet, but I
don't think it was ever ported to the 64.

> The sad part though, is that I migrated to the WinBloze side of
> things and am just now getting into *nix systems.

And I've been with Unix since the best-selling commercial Unix was
Xenix, developed by Microsoft, and working on the venerable TRS-80 Model
II 8-bit system.  I've run x86-based Unix since the 80s (SCO), and Linux
since kernel version 0.99 <smile, again>.

> I miss DOS, dammit!

Which one?  TRS-DOS, DOS+, NEWDOS, LDOS, PC-DOS, or MS-DOS?  Or do you
mean "DOS" for mainframes <smile>?  (I was VP of Software development
for Lobo when we contracted to have LDOS written for us.)

> Better stop now before other list members have me hung for chatting. <grin>

Too late, done!
-- 
Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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