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Date:      Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:44:43 -0400
From:      Greg Larkin <glarkin@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jon Radel <jon@radel.com>
Cc:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: what is from [sic (wrong)] with this picture? -- Answer: It's Ubuntu, not FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <4CA3EB8B.3050701@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4CA3AC31.2060703@radel.com>
References:  <20100928162839.GA32198@thought.org>	<7B0DAD9C-ED75-4188-9407-F86F44C94F47@cwis.biz>	<19639A29-A22D-474B-8CD6-E62D2A4CCB15@cwis.biz>	<4CA2D921.2080402@ose.nl>	<20100929202423.GB13004@thought.org> <4CA3AC31.2060703@radel.com>

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Jon Radel wrote:
>  On 9/29/10 4:24 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
>>     Yes!  changing the line in main.cf lets things get thru to my
>>     server cleanly, thanks for the tip.  I still don't understand
>>     what's wrong with my DNS files.  Hopefully, other folk on-list
>>     will see what's messed up.
> 
> Your domain registrar is having your dns delegated to 3 nameservers:
> 
> thought.org.        86400    IN    NS    ns1.thought.org.
> thought.org.        86400    IN    NS    ns1.silvertree.org.
> thought.org.        86400    IN    NS    ns1.twisted4life.com.
> ;; Received 142 bytes from 2001:500:48::1#53(b2.org.afilias-nst.org) in
> 32 ms
> 
> The last of the 3, ns1.twisted4life.com, is of the opinion that your
> domain doesn't exist, given that it has no authoritative data and
> refuses to do recursive lookups for the Internet at large.  I would
> suspect that this would result in the coming and going visibility that
> others have reported.  Basically, you don't exist a third of the time.
> 
> You need to make sure that all the nameservers you list with your
> registrar are actually admitting to your existence and are getting
> up-to-date data.  I recall having this conversation with you before.
> 

The first thing I would do is check the results of the DNS scan here
(http://www.dnscog.com/report/thought.org) and fix all of the listed
problems.  Keep iterating until the report is clean, or at least doesn't
have any red flags on it.  I've used this service successfully for a
while now to debug DNS problems.

Hope that helps,
Greg
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