-----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 http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. http://twitter.com/sourcehosting/ - Follow me, follow you -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFMo+uL0sRouByUApARAlrCAJ9wOlsjn3he03B+dOwrexWYxwm8aQCgvaLx 2Dcr9cD1dzW0PuOyOGIUFfQ= =PM9u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
