From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 12 08:55:12 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 694B2106566C for ; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:55:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECE028FC12 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:55:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NJNkr-0007xg-Hg for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:55:09 +0100 Received: from pool-68-239-72-201.res.east.verizon.net ([68.239.72.201]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:55:09 +0100 Received: from nightrecon by pool-68-239-72-201.res.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:55:09 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Michael Powell Followup-To: gmane.os.freebsd.questions Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:54:35 -0500 Lines: 94 Message-ID: References: <20091212080949.GA2606@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-68-239-72-201.res.east.verizon.net User-Agent: KNode/4.3.4 Sender: news Subject: Re: lynx failure.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:55:12 -0000 Gary Kline wrote: > Guys, this is what I see both here on my desktop, and on a > remote server, magnesium.net. Using lynx: > > > Looking up www.thought.org > Unable to locate remote host www.thought.org. > Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host. > > lynx: Can't access startfile http://www.thought.org/ > p6 0:03 > [3] > > > Obviously, something is wrong with how my new DBS, mAil, and > web server, ethic, is configurated. Can anybody help me here? > A Dig output from my location: Your DNS is somewhat screwed up. ; <<>> DiG 9.6.1-P1 <<>> www.thought.org ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 21126 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.thought.org. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.thought.org. 38299 IN CNAME aristotle.thought.org. ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: thought.org. 10700 IN SOA ethic.thought.org. hostmaster.thought.org. 2009120801 10800 3600 604800 38400 ;; Query time: 1 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.10.1#53(192.168.10.1) ;; WHEN: Sat Dec 12 03:32:48 2009 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 110 I'm certainly no DNS expert. I also have no clue as to how you are configuring your DNS. So any comments will be along the lines of text editing zone files for BIND. Here is an example of a zone file for my internal LAN (a public zone will have different information, but the structure should be similar enough for example purposes. -------------------------------------------------------------------- $TTL 3600 test.zip. IN SOA server.test.zip. testuser@test.zip. ( 20090614; Serial 10800 ; Refresh 3600 ; Retry 604800 ; Expire 86400 ) ; Minimum ;DNS Servers IN NS server.test.zip. ;MX Records IN MX 1 server.test.zip. ;Hosts server IN A 192.168.10.1 workstation IN A 192.168.10.2 testbed IN A 192.168.10.3 ;nicknames static IN A 192.168.10.3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Notice the SOA starts with the domain, here it would be thought.org. See the "test.zip." in the above? Period included. Try and use an "A" record instead of CNAME. In any case, you will need an "A" record which contains the IP address of your server. In the Dig above there is nothing to indicate any IP address for the hostname you are trying to resolve. This is just a quickie to get you looking in maybe the right direction; there are others on the list who have much more smarts about DNS than myself. I'm just around at odd hours, so take a look and wait a bit for the smarter people. Also remember when you make changes update the Serial number so zone transfers will propagate, and remember the TTL, refresh, retry, etc parameters will mean any change will take time to propagate. -Mike