Re: [cobalt-users] dodgy nameservers

["alan@" <alan@xxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald Waugh"
> On Saturday 26 October 2002 10:30, alan@ wrote:
> <snip>
> > Notice that although octagono.uk.com resolves to the correct ip, if i
run
> > nslookup on the ip, i get ns.time2time.com as the result. This can't be
> > right can it ?
> Yes it can be right, depends on how the pointer record is setup
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> 199.67.212.in-addr.arpa.  5H IN SOA  ns.webfusion.co.uk.
> hostmaster.webfusion.co.uk. (
>
> Looks like webfusion.co.uk is the owner/leaseor of the IP addresses
>
> [root etc]# dig ns.octagono.uk.com
>
> ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> ns.octagono.uk.com
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
> ;; QUERY SECTION:
> ;;      ns.octagono.uk.com, type = A, class = IN
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> ns.octagono.uk.com.     3H IN A         212.67.199.163
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> octagono.uk.com.        3H IN NS        ns.octagono.uk.com.
> octagono.uk.com.        3H IN NS        ns2.octagono.uk.com.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> ns.octagono.uk.com.     3H IN A         212.67.199.163
> ns2.octagono.uk.com.    3H IN A         212.67.199.164
>
>
> Gerald

Thanks for looking at that Gerald, so does this look as though the
nameservers are functioning correctly ? I need a starting point to try and
track this problem down.

Also, after reading the other recent posts regarding BIND config, I took a
look at the /etc/resolv.conf on the octagono server, with the following
result :

search octagono.uk.com
nameserver 212.67.199.163
nameserver 212.67.199.164

This seems fine, is it correct ?

TIA again

Alan