On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 21:17 +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote:
> how can I verify my secondary dns is just that ?
>
> my co-location runs my secondary, well, is supposed to run my secondary.
>
> is this the correct way to check it:
>
> dig @secondarydns.com.au domain.tld ?
>
> and, I should get NS/MX/A records listed ?
>
> if I run this against my secondary DNS I get a response like:
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> @xxxx.tld yyyyy.tld
> ;; global options: printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 6395
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;yyyyy.tld. IN A
>
> ;; Query time: 22 msec
> ;; SERVER: ipaddress#53(xxxx.tld)
> ;; WHEN: Wed Jul 19 21:00:01 2006
> ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 31
>
Sounds like your secondary is not working... your answer should include
something like this:
; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> @secondarydns.host yourhost.com.au
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 58911
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
^^^^^^^^^
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