Or, of course, we could always choose to use a decent DNS provider! I do not mind paying the 15 bucks per year to pop it onto the provider I use.
Regards, Phill. On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Jonathan Marsden <jmars...@fastmail.fm>wrote: > On 10/25/2011 03:36 PM, Ali Linx wrote: > > > Network Error (dns_server_failure) > > > > Your request could not be processed because an error occurred > contacting > > the DNS server. ... > > > Here is how to troubleshoot this kind of issue: > > (1) Use dig +nssearch to find out the nameservers for the domain: > > dig lxde.org +nssearch > > This should return information on the reachability of each registered > nameserver for the domain, and the DNS serial number of the information > it contains. Unfortunately, for lxde.org, I get currently "connection > timed out; no servers could be reached", which indicates a significant > problem. To see what kind of information you get when things are > working correctly, try > > dig lubuntu.net +nssearch > > (1B) Since that lookup for lxde.org totally failed (!), use whois to > determine what the listed nameservers for the domain are, instead: > > whois lxde.org > > This returns a bunch of information, including: > > Name Server:LINUX3.CC.NTU.EDU.TW > Name Server:NS1.XINH.ORG > Name Server:NS2.XINH.ORG > Name Server:DNS.LXDE.ORG > > So, now we know the four authoritative nameservers for lxde.org, > according to whois. (Note: when changes are being made, whois > information can be up to 24 hours behind reality; if nameserver > information from dig +nssearch and whois is different, info from dig is > much more likely to be correct). > > (2) Check each of the authoritative nameservers in turn, to see if they > are working, and whether they return the correct (expected) result for > the site you are trying to access: > > dig @linux3.cc.ntu.edu.tw www.lxde.org. > > That gets me a SERVFAIL response and no A record. Strike one! > > dig @ns1.xinh.org www.lxde.org. > > That gets me a "connection timed out; no servers could be reached". > Strike two! > > dig @ns2.xinh.org www.lxde.org. > > That also gets me a "connection timed out; no servers could be reached". > Strike three! > > dig @dns.lxde.org www.lxde.org. > > This gets me a "dig: couldn't get address for 'dns.lxde.org': not found". > > None of the specified authoritative DNS servers for the lxde.org zone > are working. In case it is not obvious: this is really bad and needs > fixing. > > (3) Fortunately, some cached DNS information does still exist out there, > on other public DNS servers, for example > > dig @8.8.8.8 www.lxde.org. > > returns an CNAME and A record: > > www.lxde.org. 47028 IN CNAME start.lxde.org. > start.lxde.org. 47028 IN A 210.240.39.201 > > This info looks like it will expire in 47028 seconds, which is about 13 > hours... unless the Google DNS server (8.8.8.8) has better connectivity > to the official DNS servers for lxde.org than I have. > > BOTTOM LINE: > > At least for now, anyone using Google's public DNS servers will still be > able to access www.lxde.org. Anyone using their own caching DNS server > that does not yet have lxde.org information cached in it, or using their > ISPs DNS server that does not yet have lxde.org information cached in > it, will *not* be able to look up the IP address for www.lxde.org and so > will be unable to browse to that site. > > POSSIBLE FIXES: > > If it would be useful, I would be happy to run DNS for lxde.org on one > or two small DNS servers under my control, at no cost. They run DNS for > only a couple of hundred domains or so, and so far are a lot more > reliable than the current lxde.org DNS servers seem to be :) Currently > they each run a different version of BSD, and are completely independent > in terms of power and network connectivity (they are located on opposite > coasts of the USA). > > I vaguely remember offering this once before, and there was some reason > why it didn't make sense to do it...? > > Jonathan > > PS. Just for fun: note that even the mighty Google can't work around > completely broken or missing information: > > dig @8.8.8.8 dns.lxde.org > > returns a SERVFAIL, and does not return an A record. Looking up > start.lxde.org in the same way fails similarly. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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