On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 05:14:25PM -0400, Jon Radel wrote: > On 9/29/10 4:24 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > Yes! changing the line in main.cf lets things get thru to my > > server cleanly, thanks for the tip. I still don't understand > > what's wrong with my DNS files. Hopefully, other folk on-list > > will see what's messed up. > > Your domain registrar is having your dns delegated to 3 nameservers: > > thought.org. 86400 IN NS ns1.thought.org. > thought.org. 86400 IN NS ns1.silvertree.org. > thought.org. 86400 IN NS ns1.twisted4life.com. > ;; Received 142 bytes from 2001:500:48::1#53(b2.org.afilias-nst.org) > in 32 ms > > The last of the 3, ns1.twisted4life.com, is of the opinion that your > domain doesn't exist, given that it has no authoritative data and > refuses to do recursive lookups for the Internet at large. I would > suspect that this would result in the coming and going visibility > that others have reported. Basically, you don't exist a third of > the time. > > You need to make sure that all the nameservers you list with your > registrar are actually admitting to your existence and are getting > up-to-date data. I recall having this conversation with you before. > > --
If we did discuss this, it had nothing to do with the 3rd nameserver. twisted4life is something i added only a day or two ago; it was among the first googled. i haven't checked anything DNS-wise in the past day because of other things I Am trying to resolve. > > --Jon Radel > j...@radel.com > > -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"