RE: [cobalt-users] Newbie DNS ? for own network

["Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> When I use www.dnsreport.com, it says "no CNAMES for domain" 
> and since 
> I've been on the list awhile here I've noticed lots of warning not to 
> use CNAMES so I've avoided them, or I thought I have. How did you 
> deterrmine that there were CNAMEs involved? When setting this up, I 
> followed the instructions per the Cobalt raq4r manual on 
> pages 190-194, 
> using the add A records and add MX records selections.

I use Net Demon http://www.netdemon.net/ to lookup your domain. Funny, I
have an SSH window running but didn't use my server, just ran this from
my Windows desktop.
--- DNS lookup for "nomecity.org", please wait...
--- contacting nameserver: dns17.register.com [216.21.234.79]

nomecity.org	NS	dns17.register.com
nomecity.org	NS	dns18.register.com
nomecity.org	SOA
    origin = dns17.register.com
    mail addr = root@xxxxxxxxxxxx
    serial = 200205227
    refresh = 10800 (3 hours)
    retry = 3600 (1 hour)
    expire = 604800 (7 days)
    minimum ttl = 86400 ()
nomecity.org	A	24.237.254.24
nomecity.org	MX	10  mail.nomecity.org
nomecity.org	NS	dns17.register.com
nomecity.org	NS	dns18.register.com

--- DNS Lookup completed

Since I didn't see an A record for www or mail I checked those with
NetDemon:
--- DNS lookup for "mail.nomecity.org", please wait...

mail.nomecity.org	CNAME	nomecity.org
nomecity.org	NS	dns17.register.com
nomecity.org	NS	dns18.register.com

--- DNS lookup for "www.nomecity.org", please wait...

www.nomecity.org	CNAME	nomecity.org


> >
> >Well, 24.237.254.24 isn't responding now.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> Dang. There have been some down times in the past but not sure what's 
> going on with that now. I can ping it but not sure how to test it 
> further from inside the network.

http://combat.uxn.com/ has some good web based tools.

> 
> I just see that Paul W. has given me a great looking cookbook type of 
> instruction to go through. 

Yep, looks good.
-- 
Dan Kriwitsky

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