Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: DNS problems

Author:Eric Soroos
Posted:4/29/1999; 10:52:05 PM
Topic:DNS problems
Msg #:5444 (In response to 5439)
Prev/Next:5443 / 5445

I think it's that you don't have an A or CNAME record for userland.com

output from nslookup... 

> server ns1.conxion.net
Default Server:  ns1.conxion.net
Address:  206.204.4.6


> userland.com
Server:  ns1.conxion.net
Address:  206.204.4.6


 No address (A) records available for userland.com

Right here there's a problem. It's telling me that there's no userland.com machine. So I'll look for anything that can help.

> set type=any
> userland.com
Server:  ns1.conxion.net
Address:  206.204.4.6


userland.com    nameserver = ns3.conxion.net
userland.com    nameserver = ns4.conxion.net
userland.com    nameserver = ns1.conxion.net
userland.com    preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail.userland.com
userland.com
        origin = ns.conxion.net
        mail addr = postmaster.conxion.net
        serial = 1999042802
        refresh = 43200 (12H)
        retry   = 900 (15M)
        expire  = 604800 (1W)
        minimum ttl = 86400 (1D)
userland.com    preference = 50, mail exchanger = mailspool.conxion.net
userland.com    nameserver = ns3.conxion.net
userland.com    nameserver = ns4.conxion.net
userland.com    nameserver = ns1.conxion.net
ns3.conxion.net internet address = 206.204.210.9
ns4.conxion.net internet address = 206.204.235.3
ns1.conxion.net internet address = 206.204.4.6
mail.userland.com       internet address = 206.204.24.9
mailspool.conxion.net   internet address = 206.204.4.6
>

What this is telling me is that there isn't a machine "userland.com". There's a mail exchange record, and nameserver authorities, but no A or cname.

Checkng discuss.userland.com, it looks like it's there. Screenshots, docserver, and all the other usual suspects are there.

Keep in mind that dns propagates slowly, mistakes as well as fixes.

Doing you own DNS is a good thing. At least when it gets messed up, you can say three hail murphy's, figure out what's wrong, and learn from it.

eric



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