-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 ?
Yes > and, I should get NS/MX/A records listed ? Yes - you should get an answer section (for the domain.tld query) an authority section which lists the DNS servers for domain.tld, and an additional section which should list the dns hostname <-> IP mappings. > 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 That's it? Looks like their DNS servers are answering your query but not returning any information. What do you get if you ask the secondary to return the IP of a specific host, rather than the domain. HTH, James -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEvu2DwBHpdJO7b9ERAqBZAKCvfhgYeZvbwXTEQSPcLrNyu83+mQCeI0Qr oKWxHPEYFK3Vwi0k/4KLG/k= =7SdT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
