Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 15:57:17 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Greg Larkin <glarkin@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Jon Radel <jon@radel.com> Subject: Re: what is from [sic (wrong)] with this picture? -- Answer: It's Ubuntu, not FreeBSD Message-ID: <20101001225717.GA83457@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <4CA3EB8B.3050701@FreeBSD.org> 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> <4CA3EB8B.3050701@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 09:44:43PM -0400, Greg Larkin wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 > - -- > Greg Larkin > Well, long-story-short, yes and no. I changed the IP addr to the same as my firewall's and was able to ping ns1.thought.org .... but that created other errors that I didn't understand. Plus, it disabled mail both incoming and outgoing. Back to square 0. gary > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org
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