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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:16 pm
by jason
VladSun wrote:@jason
Did you look at the DNS report - it shows everything you need to know what's wrong with your DNS setup ...
Yes, I've forwarded that off to them as well. They are pretty responsive. They responded 20 mins after my initial support request... of course, that was 5 hours ago. I should pay more attention. =) I've said before I believe the problem lies in something I've failed to do in setup.
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:36 pm
by Zoxive
It seems to be working again for me for the last 2 hours.
The .net, the ip has all ways worked.
Edit: Spoke to soon.
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kyle@w3jubuntu:~$ dig forums.devnetwork.net
; <<>> DiG 9.4.1-P1 <<>> forums.devnetwork.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 13444
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;forums.devnetwork.net. IN A
;; Query time: 9 msec
;; SERVER: 208.83.64.5#53(208.83.64.5)
;; WHEN: Wed Nov 28 16:52:24 2007
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 39
No Answer : /
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:52 pm
by vigge89
Login problems seems to be solved for me, haven't noticed any connection troubles either. Yay

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 4:16 pm
by jason
Well, I'm talking with them via the support line, so as soon as I have an answer from them, I'll fix it. Something is wrong. What? Not sure yet.
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 4:25 pm
by RobertGonzalez
One of the two domain name servers are not resolving. One name server appears to be the same server that the forums are on. The other name server appears to either not be set or set incorrectly because there is no resolving for it.
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 8:30 pm
by jason
Okay, support got back to me, and yeah, apparently I made a mistake in setting up the domain. I've gone ahead and made the change they said (I think) and hopefully it should work properly now.
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 8:39 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Thanks Jason
It appears from my end that NS1 is all good (I notice you added the NS records to the zone file too which is good) but NS2 seems to be non-responsive?
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w3style:~ chris$ ping ns1.hnjdev.com
PING ns1.hnjdev.com (216.32.90.210): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 216.32.90.210: icmp_seq=0 ttl=52 time=231.707 ms
64 bytes from 216.32.90.210: icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=229.717 ms
^C
--- ns1.hnjdev.com ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 229.717/230.712/231.707/0.995 ms
w3style:~ chris$ ping ns2.hnjdev.com
PING ns2.hnjdev.com (216.32.90.211): 56 data bytes
^C
--- ns2.hnjdev.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
w3style:~ chris$ dig A forums.devnetwork.net @ns1.hnjdev.com
; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> A forums.devnetwork.net @ns1.hnjdev.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 61054
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;forums.devnetwork.net. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
forums.devnetwork.net. 14400 IN A 216.32.90.210
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
devnetwork.net. 86400 IN NS ns1.hnjdev.com.devnetwork.net.
devnetwork.net. 86400 IN NS ns2.hnjdev.com.devnetwork.net.
;; Query time: 217 msec
;; SERVER: 216.32.90.210#53(216.32.90.210)
;; WHEN: Thu Nov 29 13:37:15 2007
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 102
w3style:~ chris$ dig A forums.devnetwork.net @ns2.hnjdev.com
; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> A forums.devnetwork.net @ns2.hnjdev.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
w3style:~ chris$
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 6:28 am
by VladSun
No, it's not good

Check it -
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnsreport ... etwork.net
So ...
You have wrong NS records in your SOA:
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ns2.hnjdev.com.devnetwork.net.
ns1.hnjdev.com.devnetwork.net.
I suppose you have written them in you domain zone file as:
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NS ns2.hnjdev.com
NS ns1.hnjdev.com
Which is wrong - please, make it sure that you put a dot after the domain name - i.e.:
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NS ns2.hnjdev.com.
NS ns1.hnjdev.com.
If that dot is missing the origin (devnetwork.net) is added ...
Also you forgot to change your SOA records:
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dig devnetwork.net SOA
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;devnetwork.net. IN SOA
;; ANSWER SECTION:
devnetwork.net. 86400 IN SOA ns1.90.32.216.static.reverse.ltdomains.com. jasonlotito.gmail.com. 2007111602 86400 7200 3600000 86400
That is this error message for:
WARNING: Your SOA (Start of Authority) record states that your master (primary) name server is: ns1.90.32.216.static.reverse.ltdomains.com.. However, that server is not listed at the parent servers as one of your NS records! This is legal, but you should be sure that you know what you are doing.
Change it to ns1.hnjdev.com. (dot!) ...
I think you should tell your support, that you expect that all of the DNS servers serving (

) your zone to be working properly and reachable ... That is for ns2.hnjdev.com
Hope that I've helped somehow

Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 8:40 am
by jason
VladSun wrote:No, it's not good

Yeah, went back and re-read their post, and yeah, I fogot a few things. o.O They even flat out say I shouldn't be using ns1.90.32.216.static.reverse.ltdomains.com.
Wrote back to clarify a few things. They are being patient. =)
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 9:52 am
by RobertGonzalez
Hey, at least it is being worked. DNS can be a bugger (just ask Chris what he had to go through when he helped me set up mine

)
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:10 am
by matthijs
Wow, it's time I follow a course on DNS somewere. That's complicated stuff.
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 11:19 am
by jason
It also seems I had my name servers pointed at the wrong IPs. =O
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 6:04 pm
by Chris Corbyn
I wouldn't worry about half of the stuff on the DNSStuff page... if you get all of those things working you've probably got a better DNS setup than google
However, there are still problems

I'm only able to use this forum right now since I know it's IP address and have editted my /etc/hosts file so it's foolproof
Both nameservers are not being resolved. Jason, have you got any GLUE records set up with your registrar which provide the IP *and* the names of the nameservers? You usually need to email the registrar for this although it can also be done via the admin panel for your NIC if you've got the details to access that.
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w3style:~ chris$ dig A forums.devnetwork.net @ns2.hnjdev.com
dig: couldn't get address for 'ns2.hnjdev.com': not found
w3style:~ chris$ dig A forums.devnetwork.net @ns1.hnjdev.com
dig: couldn't get address for 'ns1.hnjdev.com': not found
w3style:~ chris$
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 9:14 pm
by VladSun
jason doesn't need glue records in this case. Glue records are used only if the nameserver referred to is under the domain that it is authoritative of
(hnjdev.com != devnetwork.com).
I don't think that the DNS service provided by hnjdev.com is a high quallity one

I've never seen ns2.hnjdev.com online ... this is not good - half of the total requests for this domain would have to timeout first before re-requesting the resolve from ns1 (which is very slow

)
And if you take a look at hnjdev.com DNS report... I think that, now, devnetwork.com domain has much, much better DNS setup than hnjdev.com ...
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnsreport ... hnjdev.com
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 8:38 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
Using the IP address, and getting my session recognised via the url sid, I managed to post here

.
Anyone able to use the forums today normally? I tried last night but ever since yesterday I can't get a single response from the domain. It's like the whole thing just up and went on strike!
The DNS report does not look good!
[ERROR: I was unable to get an answer from the parent servers [j.gtld-servers.net], when I tried to find the NS records for devnetwork.net.]