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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