On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 09:44:43PM -0400, Greg Larkin wrote:
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> 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.
> >
>
> The first thing I would do is check the results of the DNS scan here
> (http://www.dnscog.com/report/thought.org) and fix all of the listed
> problems. Keep iterating until the report is clean, or at least doesn't
> have any red flags on it. I've used this service successfully for a
> while now to debug DNS problems.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Greg
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> Greg Larkin
>
Well, long-story-short, yes and no. I changed the IP addr to the
same as my firewall's and was able to ping ns1.thought.org ....
but that created other errors that I didn't understand. Plus, it
disabled mail both incoming and outgoing.
Back to square 0.
gary
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