Tom Caudron said: > It's odd, since t looks like packets are finding their way to the > dns to get the info (according to tcpdump on the dns), but they > never get it (according to the results of the ping command on the > client). I am at a loss as to what I should be looking at next. > > One question. When I registered the dns with go-daddy.com I just > gave it a name (mordor.kungfugamers.com) and told it the ip > address. The only reason I gave it a name was because go-daddy > insisted. Frankly, an IP was good enough for me. Should I be > doing something with that name on the server itself? I mean, it's > internal name isn't > mordor.kungfugamers.com. If so, what do I do about the fact that > I had to register it with 2 names (mordor.kungfugamers.com and > shire.kungfugamers.com) because go-daddy demanded multiple > authoritative dns's.
The internal name doesn't matter. They request the IP of each DNS server for the "glue" records. Glue records work like this: your DNS client asks "where is www.kungfugamers.com". The DNS .com roots respond "I don't know, but mordor.kungfugamers.com knows.". So then your client says, "OK, so where is mordor.kungfugamers.com?". The .com roots have to know the IP address at that server (and all name servers), otherwise, you'll never find it. Once the client has the IP of the name server, it goes to it for all further DNS requests on that domain. It uses the IP address to perform the query and doesn't care what the server's internal hostname is. I have verified that the glue records are in place and working for both of your name server names, and both point to 68.15.153.133. So the problem isn't at the registry. However, when I query your name server directly with "dig @68.15.153.133 www.kungfugamers.com", the request times out. Are you sure you aren't blocking the requests in some way? -Eric -- arctic bears - email and name services 25 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] CA$11.95/month DNS starting at CA$3.49/month - domains from CA$25.95/year for details contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://www.arcticbears.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
