OK, I stopped dnschachex and axfrdns with "svc -d". A dig command now shows me this:
> dig @68.15.153.133 www.kungfugamers.com a ; <<>> DiG 9.2.2rc1 <<>> @68.15.153.133 www.kungfugamers.com a ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 25100 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.kungfugamers.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.kungfugamers.com. 86400 IN A 68.15.153.133 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: kungfugamers.com. 259200 IN NS a.ns.kungfugamers.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: a.ns.kungfugamers.com. 259200 IN A 68.15.153.133 ;; Query time: 140 msec ;; SERVER: 68.15.153.133#53(68.15.153.133) ;; WHEN: Thu Nov 20 08:31:46 2003 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 89 However, I'm still getting a domain not found error when I try to ping www.kungfugamers.com When I do dnsq I get this: > dnsq a www.kungfugamers.com 68.15.153.133 1 www.kungfugamers.com: 89 bytes, 1+1+1+1 records, response, authoritative, noerror query: 1 www.kungfugamers.com answer: www.kungfugamers.com 86400 A 68.15.153.133 authority: kungfugamers.com 259200 NS a.ns.kungfugamers.com additional: a.ns.kungfugamers.com 259200 A 68.15.153.133 But when I do dnsqr, I get: > dnsqr a www.kungfugamers.com <System just sits there til I kill the command. No return> Mike said, "add your external IP to /var/tinydns/env/IP, and restart tiny." I rechecked it and a cat on the IP shows me the external ip address. I restarted the service like this: > svc -t /service/tinydns Which seemed to work (ie, didn't barf on me). If I do a tcpdump on the server when I try to connect with mybrowser on a different internal machine, the output suggests that it's still not getting what it needs from my dns. That is to say, it's doing just what it did before, where it's trying different permutations of the domain hoping to get an answer to one of them. Weird. Eric said, "If I query hearsay.earthlink.net, it's never heard of kungfugamers.com. You will have to fix that before others will be able to reliably use your domain." Yeah. Not sure what to do about that. The problem just that I registered with go-daddy.com and when they asked for an authortative dns for the domain, they insisted on two dns servers. Well, I only have one box, so I threw a bogus server out there (well, it's a real dns, just not authoritative for my domain) as a placeholder. Not sure what to do about that. I only have one box, but they seem to be expecting two dns's per domain. Frankly, I'm not hosting professionally, so if my one server box is down for some reason, I don't care that the domain is inaccessible. Seems kinda dumb, but should I register the dns under two different names pointing to the same IP, then use both those names as authoritative? That seems sorta kludgy, but if that's how it works, then so be it. What do you think? Mike said, "Steep learning curve, but an immense sense satisfaction when you are there :)" Like everything good in linux. :-) -Tom Caudron -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
