thank you very much Warren, I appreciate your help.. see below:
On Mon, 6
Aug 2001, Mansur, Warren wrote:
> When I try and contact I get:
>
> The DNS name server for the host specified in your URL could not be
> contacted. Please try your request again.
> This error could have been caused by:
>
> Load conditions on the web server
> Load conditions on the Proxy server
> Your network connection and/or transient conditions on the Internet
>
> There are a few things to try.
>
> 1) Might be silly but . . . are you sure you properly own that domain
> and that the IP address of your DNS server hasn't changed from when you
> registered it?
I've owned threeofus.com for about 4 years. originally, I had it on
199.232.38.2 but moved it to .4 about 1.5 years ago.
> 2) Has your domain been registered for more than 2 days? If not it
> takes a while for the world to get updated and you may have to wait a
> day or two.
see above
> 3) From inside the LAN, using a computer pointing to your DNS server,
> are you able to resolve any hosts on threeofus.com?
here's what I get running dig at the prompt, logged into monica (.4, the
dns server) logged in as root:
[root@monica jfreeman]# dig threeofus.com
; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> threeofus.com
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; threeofus.com, type = A, class = IN
;; Total query time: 127 msec
;; FROM: monica to SERVER: default -- 199.232.38.4
;; WHEN: Mon Aug 6 09:24:29 2001
;; MSG SIZE sent: 31 rcvd: 31
I don't think I can resolve any hostname on my LAN from inside.
>If you can resolve
> any_hostname.threeofus.com from inside the LAN, and not from outside,
> then that means that your Dns server is working properly, but for some
> reason they can't connect from outside. This could occur because:
> a) It hasn't been more than two days since you registered.
> b) Your DNS server runs a firewall or is behind a firewall that
> rejects incoming connections on port 53.
I have tried, many times, to figure out how to configure my NetGear RT328
ISDN router to be a firewall, but it's terribly confusing.. so, in short,
I'm NOT running behind a firewall
> c) The master domain servers aren't pointing to the right IP address
> for your DNS server.
you mean the guys upstream from me? that would be nic.cent.net and
ns2.cent.net
so, I should contact the folks who run those servers?
J.
>
> Regards,
>
> Warren
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua S. Freeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 8:46 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: bind woes
>
>
> I'm currently running VA enhanced RH Linux 6.2.4, the 2.2.19 kernel and
> 8.2.0.6.x.i386 bind on the machine that I use as a nameserver.
>
> Everything's been running just fine... and, in fact, on all the machines
> on my network, if I'm trying to find addresses in the world, it seems
> like
> everything resolves, and everything is pointing to my own nameserver,
> dns.threeofus.com at 199.232.38.4... however, just try getting in! try
> finding ANY hostname at threeofus.com.. it's not there!... My
> nameserver
> is not telling the world out there that we're here... It used to... I'm
> not nearly enough of a bind/dns wonk to figure this out... i tried
> upgrading to bind-9.1.0.10 but.. since I'm running 6.2.4 all the library
> dependencies fail...
>
> Can anyone help me troubleshoot this problem? I've looked around on
> deja,
> but nothing jumped out as something for me to actually *try* as a way to
> troubleshoot what's wrong and start understanding and fixing it...
>
> TIA,
>
> J.
>
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