not the standard findns problem

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Fri Dec 29 19:14:54 UTC 2000


In article <92immc$p93 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,  <simprini at my-deja.com> wrote:
>I am not sure why that is delgated as a subdomain. I didn't mean to do
>it that way. I only have 1 legal IP address. I found documentation that
>said I could do the classless domain on my own as long as I didn't care
>about reverse resolve and I decided I can live without it. So I went to
>the domain registry and when I registered the domain it said that if I
>was trying to use an NS that was in the domain I was registering I
>would need to register a glue record with the nsiregistery which I did.
>ns1 and ns2.geeqsquad.com are active and will resolve. As an added
>twist, everything stopped resolving yesterday and I recreated the
>domain from scratch. I have no other errors or warnings except the
>NXDOMAIN one. How have I configured my domain incorrectly?
>
>I had a feeling that getting into DNS was going to be more involved
>than I thought. This is my geeqsquad.com.hosts file
>$TTL 3600
>geeqsquad.com.	IN	SOA	24.234.49.79. master.geeqsquad.com. (
>			978027335
>			10800
>			3600
>			691200
>			38400 )
>			IN	NS	ns1.geeqsquad.com.
>			IN	NS	ns2.geeqsquad.com.
>			IN	MX	0 24.234.49.79

That should be:         IN      MX      0 www.geeqsquad.com.

MX records must point to hostnames, not IP addresses.

>www.geeqsquad.com.	IN	A	24.234.49.79
>mail.geeqsquad.com.	IN	CNAME	www.geeqsquad.com.
>ftp.geeqsquad.com.	IN	CNAME	www.geeqsquad.com.
>lenore.geeqsquad.com.	IN	CNAME	www.geeqsquad.com.
>nihility.geeqsquad.com.	IN	A	24.234.60.152
>
>Where do I find where I defined this as a subdomain?

It appears to be gone now that you recreated your files.  But to get rid of
the "findns" errors, you need to add A records for ns1 and ns2:

ns1   IN A  24.234.49.79
ns2   IN A  24.234.60.152

The rest of the servers on the Internet will get this information from the
glue records, but your own server is authoritative for the geeqsquad.com
domain, so it will never query another server to look up something in this
domain.  That's why it is complaining that the names don't exist.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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