On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:12:44PM +1100, Ashley Glenday wrote: > At the beginning of this saga I had a server in America that I > called ns1.domain.com and ns2.domain.com. After this I decided to > become patriotic (with the help of some sluggers suggestions) and > moved to a host in Sydney, this server became ns3.domain.com and > ns4.domain.com. My problem is that it's time to move yet again and I > wanted to go back to ns1.domain.com and ns2.domain.com but this > doesn't seem to work. My registrar assures me they've set the glue > records up properly but I can't get it to resolve. The host has set > the reverse DNS up as I can confirm that with host 123.123.123.123 > which returns ns1.domain.com > > What I'm after is any known way to test the glue records are in fact > set up properly and if they are, what else could I have missed?
So for google If I wanted to check I would do jo...@zoot:~$ dig ns google.com ;; ANSWER SECTION: google.com. 296819 IN NS ns4.google.com. google.com. 296819 IN NS ns2.google.com. google.com. 296819 IN NS ns1.google.com. google.com. 296819 IN NS ns3.google.com. jo...@zoot:~$ dig soa com ;; ANSWER SECTION: com. 789 IN SOA a.gtld-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. 1266627161 1800 900 604800 86400 jo...@zoot:~$ dig a ns1.google.com. @a.gtld-servers.net. ;; ANSWER SECTION: ns1.google.com. 172800 IN A 216.239.32.10 If there is no glue record the ANSWER section will be empty and you'll get a WARNING about recusrion being disabled. Cheers, John -- John Blog http://www.inodes.org LCA2010 http://www.lca2010.org.nz -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
