Gary Kline wrote: > Guys, this is what I see both here on my desktop, and on a > remote server, magnesium.net. Using lynx: > > > Looking up www.thought.org > Unable to locate remote host www.thought.org. > Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host. > > lynx: Can't access startfile http://www.thought.org/ > p6 0:03 <toxic> > [3] > > > Obviously, something is wrong with how my new DBS, mAil, and > web server, ethic, is configurated. Can anybody help me here? >
A Dig output from my location: Your DNS is somewhat screwed up. ; <<>> DiG 9.6.1-P1 <<>> www.thought.org ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 21126 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.thought.org. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.thought.org. 38299 IN CNAME aristotle.thought.org. ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: thought.org. 10700 IN SOA ethic.thought.org. hostmaster.thought.org. 2009120801 10800 3600 604800 38400 ;; Query time: 1 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.10.1#53(192.168.10.1) ;; WHEN: Sat Dec 12 03:32:48 2009 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 110 I'm certainly no DNS expert. I also have no clue as to how you are configuring your DNS. So any comments will be along the lines of text editing zone files for BIND. Here is an example of a zone file for my internal LAN (a public zone will have different information, but the structure should be similar enough for example purposes. -------------------------------------------------------------------- $TTL 3600 test.zip. IN SOA server.test.zip. [email protected]. ( 20090614; Serial 10800 ; Refresh 3600 ; Retry 604800 ; Expire 86400 ) ; Minimum ;DNS Servers IN NS server.test.zip. ;MX Records IN MX 1 server.test.zip. ;Hosts server IN A 192.168.10.1 workstation IN A 192.168.10.2 testbed IN A 192.168.10.3 ;nicknames static IN A 192.168.10.3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Notice the SOA starts with the domain, here it would be thought.org. See the "test.zip." in the above? Period included. Try and use an "A" record instead of CNAME. In any case, you will need an "A" record which contains the IP address of your server. In the Dig above there is nothing to indicate any IP address for the hostname you are trying to resolve. This is just a quickie to get you looking in maybe the right direction; there are others on the list who have much more smarts about DNS than myself. I'm just around at odd hours, so take a look and wait a bit for the smarter people. Also remember when you make changes update the Serial number so zone transfers will propagate, and remember the TTL, refresh, retry, etc parameters will mean any change will take time to propagate. -Mike _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
