On 5 May 2010 13:04, john lewis <johnle...@hantslug.org.uk> wrote: > > I don't understand the DNS system at all other than a need to put some > nameservers into /etc/resolv.conf (or equivalent) and didn't realise > until this problem came up that startx.co.uk needed the *.myth.co.uk > servers >
The DNS system is a distributed data base. Each domain has a "zone" file that maps names to IP addresses. The "zone" file can refer to other systems that might contain the sub-zone file. Currently, the "zone" file for startx.co.uk should stored on: 87.83.158.197 (persephone.myth.co.uk) and 213.129.93.211 (hades.myth.co.uk) Unfortunately, both of those hosts are saying that they do not wish to respond to requests for that "zone". So, your startx.co.uk domain is unable to be resolved to IP address. You need to find out where your "zone" files are stored and then make sure the "co.uk" zone file points to it. It sounds to me that whoever runs those two hosts persephone and hades has made a mistake. In the mean time, find out what your IP address is for startx.co.uk, and let your wife type the IP address into the web browser instead of the name. Based on the fact the even hades.myth.co.uk is not responding correctly to requests for hades.myth.co.uk, causes me to suspect the hades and persephone machines as being the root cause of your problems. Kind Regards James -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
