From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from wb2flw.octothorp.org ([63.224.68.2] ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 176RkE-0001ea-00 for ; Sat, 11 May 2002 03:56:46 -0400 Received: from localhost (wacker@localhost) by wb2flw.octothorp.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4B7ul808531 for ; Sat, 11 May 2002 07:56:47 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: wb2flw.octothorp.org: wacker owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 01:56:47 -0600 (MDT) From: "William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123" To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: slight dns confusion again In-Reply-To: <20020511024502.GC17370@asmodean.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi Raul, The problem is that the internic thinks that saidin is a name-server. You should be able to fix it at godady. If you want it to be a name-server, even for playing, or to host other peoples domains, change the IP address. If you don't intend for it to be a name-server, you could just delete the record. HTH. Bill On Fri, 10 May 2002, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > Hi. Speaking of all this dns weirdness and bill's latest message it > prompted me to wonder why my domain is not updated on all changes. I'll > explain. I have asmodean.net and set up 4 authoritive dns servers > ns1.mi.sprintbbd.net, ns2.mi.sprintbbd.net, ns1.az and ns2.az. Now the > host saidin.asmodean.net used to have IP 216.254.102.192 but when I > moved and got a new IP address I changed it to 216.254.114.61 which is > the current one. Since I currently only have one machine I figured I > would just have cname records to www.asmodean.net, ftp.asmodean.net and > mg.asmodean.net all cname to saidin.asmodean.net. OK, now to the > problem. When I moved and changed it to 216.254.114.61 everything > seemed to be working yet if you query dns servers at random some still > say that saidin resolves to the 102.192 address instead of the 114.61 > address. And so of course because the www. host was cnamed to saidin it > too was not resolving. I checked and rechecked my zone file and it > looks correct. I can ask ns1.mi, ns2.mi, ns1.az and ns2.az for the > information with dig or host and they give the correct 114.61 IP > address. If you ask for example ns1.earthlink.net and ns1.kc.rr.com > they do not have the correct address. Furhter more what I di was change > the cname records to a records and just have the individual hosts www, > ftp, and mg resolve to the IP 114.61 directly instead of the cname > saidin. NOw those ns servers which still say that saidin is on 102.192 > report the correct ip address 114.61 for www and mg yet they still say > that saidin is 102.192. > > Can anyone explain why this would be so? The change from the old ip to > the new one happened in March. That is definitely past the one week ttl > time set on most default name servers. > >