On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 13:57, Keith Goettert wrote: > > Ns1.helpfulhome.com is the DNS server for a variety of email and > websites. I have been having trouble lately with email arriving late > (several days) or not at all. As far as I can tell, this is a new > issue. I am concerned because locally the DNS server appears to be > working fine. But when I issue commands like: > > dig ns1.helpfulhome.com @ns1.covad.net > > I don't get an answer section. I have double checked my forward and > reverse entries and all appears correct. Can somebody give me a clue??
what domains are hosted on ns1.helpfulhome.com that are experiencing these issues? Off the top, the nameservers for .com ( [a-m].gtld-server.net ) are carrying the following NS records for helpfulhome.com: hadrian:~> dig @a.gtld-servers.net ns helpfulhome.com ; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> @a.gtld-servers.net ns helpfulhome.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 53705 ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;helpfulhome.com. IN NS ;; ANSWER SECTION: helpfulhome.com. 172800 IN NS ns1.helpfulhome.com. helpfulhome.com. 172800 IN NS birch.helpfulhome.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns1.helpfulhome.com. 172800 IN A 67.100.249.74 birch.helpfulhome.com. 172800 IN A 67.100.249.74 This means that "The Internet" is expecting to find information about hosts in the helpfulhome.com domain at EITHER ns1.helpfulhome.com OR birch.helpfulhome.com. But the additional information section indicates that ns1. and birch. are the same machine. I assume this was to remove ns1.lightwaveaccess.net as an NS for helpfulhome.com because it was behaving peculiarly? At any rate, there is no problem having ns1.helpfulhome.com being the primary master for helpfulhome.com since the gtld-servers all carry the necessary "glue" records. If you need secondary DNS let me know, and get me the list of domains. I'd be happy to accomodate you. madmac [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
