Re: [cobalt-users] Crashed my ISP's DNS servers Ops (Please help)

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Nicolae wrote:
> 
> It is a very long story and I will make it as short as possible.

You had a busy day ;P

> I just got a new RAQ 4r few days ago.  I hosted with others
> and decided to get my own.  I got it from serverrack.net
> I read an article on Interliant.com and added the following to
> above Site Management:
> 
> ns1.enigmabiz.com 65.170.79.2
> ns2.enigmabiz.com 65.170.79.3
> Now I am not sure if I did that correct but I did follow step by step
> info based on: http://teamcobalt.interliant.com/pg_faq_setupdns.shtml

First, that article is for the Raq3 ;P Second , you didn't do what it
said, and you weren't suppose to do that at all ;P

The ip addresses are your ISP's nameservers, you tried to use them as your
IP addresses , when you configured them, you stole the data from their
gateway,yes, they shouldn't really let your machine do this, but the
internal part of colo networks kind of assumes customer's machines aren't
trying to kill each other ..lol

> 
> Now that ns1.enigmabiz.com I just did above.  I did not know what
> would cause!

Learned that the hard way i see ;P

In fact, you can not set up ANY dns for enigmabiz until you get your
whois data setup, it still has the registrars nameservers listed ;P

> I am reading forums, I am reading right now DNS and Bind book I got this
> morning and also reading PDFs from Redhat linux 7.2 manual.

Good, the O'reiley book is good, and will help 

> I hate asking for help on serverrack.net again because I got a good price
> cut in price for setup and now ask them to setup the domains is too much.
> 
> I crashed their server and rerouted traffic to my site accidently they
> probably hate me by now.

heh, ok, believe be here, they would MUCH rather spend an hour helping you
set up your Raq then have you wipe out their nameserver again, go back and
tell them what you need where and ask them to set it up, it's not hard,
they have probably done it before, and it's safer. When you finish the
bind book you can look at how they set it up and go from there.


> I took movie capture of everything I have in admin section and it's located

I have to admit, i didn't watch the movie, but it's kind of a novel idea:)

> I also wondered if anyone can help by going in there admin area and see if
> settings are all correct and make sure it's not me and might be
> serverrack.net

It won't help any, everyone's settings are different, that's why you have
to tell it that part yourself ;P

> and I am pulling my hair out for nothing.  Right now if you go to blly.com
> or www.blly.com you get a 500 error.

I can't resolve it, it's broken ;P

> 
> I've been working on this matter for about 3 days now at least 3-5 hours a
> day.

You could have just paid them to set it up ;P 

> 
> I also went and changed SOA records, TTL from 86400 seconds to 180 seconds
> and back to default to make dns changes take effect faster etc...

Doesn't make much difference if your dns doesn't work 
in the first place ;P

Leave the fancy stuff alone, concentrate on the basic stuff first

You can let your ISP do all the dns you know, and not use the DNS /
nameserver in the Raq at all, it might be easier that way, i looked on
their web site and they include dns with the colo packkage ;)

gsh