Re: [cobalt-users] help with bind and named

[Larry Smith <lesmith@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 13 August 2003 00:53, Ray Archie wrote:
>  > On Sunday 10 August 2003 18:09, Ray Archie wrote: > > This is the
>
> content of my resolv.conf file: search gigcity.net nameserver > >
> 216.240.160.186 nameserver 10.58.62.96 nameserver 63.102.225.50
> nameserver > > 63.102.225.49 nameserver 216.105.35.69 nameserver
> 216.105.35.36
>
>  > from Larry Smith > While I dont' know the whole issue, I do notice that
>
> your second entry seems > to be 10.58.62.96. That is a _private_ net
> address and is not "legal" on the > net
>
> Thanks - I removed that
>
>  > from Larry Smith > Also you seem to be bouncing back and forth between
>
> www.gigcity.net and > ns.gigcity.net and just "gigcity.net" - you have
> ns.gigcity.net listed as > your primary NS, but then later have
> www.gigcity.net listed as your primary > NS. Get it all the "same" and it
> will work much better.
>
> In /etc/named/records, I have some SOA's that look like this: soa -
> murielscreations.com
> www.gigcity.net:ns.gigcity.com:admin@xxxxxxxxxxx:5000:3600:604800:86400 -
>
> and others that look like this: soa - edablegray.com
> www.gigcity.net::admin@xxxxxxxxxxx:5000:3600:604800:86400 -
>
> What is it supposed to look like?
>
>  > The ns1.ixpres.com server seems to be responding for you (gigcity.net)
>
> and all > your virtual domains, but your server (ns.gigcity.net and
> ns.gigcity.com) do > not seem to be responding...
>
> Should my machine name be ns1.gigcity.net?  Would that resolve that issue?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

Ray,

  The edablegray.com domain seems to be responding "correctly" so believe that 
to be the "correct" format.

  The name (www vice ns, etc) does not matter as long as it matches everywhere 
- _or_ - that the DNS servers have correct A records.  You can create an A 
record (IP record) for the name ns, or you can change the DNS pointers to be 
the www.gigcitynet or whatever - but they all have to resolve to an actual IP 
address and not another name (cname records).

 Appears you have changed the gigcity.net as "www.gigcity.net" is now listed 
as the DNS server, but now it is not responding with answers.  It is there, 
just not giving back any information !!!

-- 
Larry Smith
SysAd ECSIS.NET
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