DNS stopped working

Jason Rotunno rotunnoj at mail.med.upenn.edu
Thu Sep 2 23:32:59 UTC 1999


Jay Nugent (jjn at home.nuge.com) wrote:
: Greetings,

: On 2 Sep 1999, Jason Rotunno wrote:

: > Greg Chavez (greg at capu.net) wrote:
: > 
: > : On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Joseph S D Yao wrote:
: > 
: > : > > Joseph S D Yao (jsdy at cospo.osis.gov) wrote:
: > : > ..
: > : > > : Given these symptoms, the first thing to do is check and see whether
: > : > > : you've paid your domain bill.  It sounds like your domain's parent is
: > : > > : no longer referring to your name server.
: > : > > 
: > : > > I actually thought of that because I haven't paid the bill.  I did a 
: > : > > whois on my domain and it's still existent and lists my box as the 
: > : > > nameserver.  Even though this is the case is it what you said a possibility?
: > : > 
: > : > YES.  Archives contain more info.
: > 
: > : More specifically:
: > 
: > :   http://payments.networksolutions.com
: > 
: > : If a bill comes up for your domain, you need to pay.  
: > 
: > 
: > ok, i payed so i'll just see what happens from here.  i'll follow up if 
: > this wasn't the problem.  thanks for the replies.

:    Paid, or not paid, the key here is whether the root-servers (controlled
: by NSI) actually resolve your domain and point to your authoratative
: nameservers. 

:    Try this:

:       dig @a.root-servers.net yourdomain.com


:    If it comes back like this, then your're okay in the roots:

: ;; QUESTIONS:
: ;;      yourdomain.com, type = A, class = IN

: ;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
: yourdomain.com.       172800  NS      NS1.YOURDOMAIN.COM.
: yourdomain.com.       172800  NS      NS2.YOURDOMAIN.COM.

: ;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS:
: NS1.YOURDOMAIN.COM.      172800  A       209.69.xxx.yyy
: NS2.YOURDOMAIN.COM.      172800  A       208.231.xxx.yyy


Ok...For my working domain that's what comes up (at least something 
similar enough to indicate that it's the same thing).  For my troubled 
domain, though this is what I get:


; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> @a.root-servers.net MYDOMAIN.com 
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 10
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;	MYDOMAIN.com, type = A, class = IN

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
COM.			1D IN SOA	A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. hostmaster.internic.NET. (
					1999090200	; serial
					30M		; refresh
					15M		; retry
					1W		; expiry
					1D )		; minimum


;; Total query time: 10 msec
;; FROM: drop to SERVER: a.root-servers.net  198.41.0.4
;; WHEN: Thu Sep  2 18:24:55 1999
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 32  rcvd: 109


No nameservers listed, etc.  What steps do I need to take from here to 
resolve this?

Jason


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