Secondary DNS Problem (?)

Fri Oct 19 19:48:39 UTC 2001

On 19 Oct 2001, at 5:15, Chris Cameron wrote: 

> Hope someone here is able to help with a little problem I have. I'm a 
> bit new to DNS (halfway through DNS and BIND), so I appologize if I've 
> overlooked something large.
> 
> I've recently tried to change the DNS servers of a domain (upnix.com). 
> After a week of nothing happening I talked to a guy and Verisign who 
> didn't speak the clearest english. What he was saying (that I could 
> understand) was that my secondary IP pointed to my primary. This makes 
> little sense to me, and he probably meant something other than what I 
> was hearing.
> 
> My DNS setup consists of two OpenBSD machine (2.9 and 3.0-beta). Both 
> run BIND 4.9.8-REL.
> dns.upnix.net 
> 207.153.6.66
> dns2.upnix.net 
> 24.64.80.251
> 
> Those servers currently only look after two domains. upnix.net iteself, 
> and a .co.uk domain. Neither have had any problem in using those dns 
> servers.
> 
> If someone would be able to tell me if there's anything obviously wrong 
> It'd be greatly appreciated. I wouldn't be surprised if the secondary 
> had a problem as it's just an @home address, but I can't figure out what 
> could be special about that address that could prevent DNS from working 
> right.
> 
> 
> Thank you for your time,
> Chris Cameron
> 

Chris, 

Your domain (upnix.com) is pointing to the following: 
   NS1.MYDOMAIN.COM		216.34.13.236 
   NS2.MYDOMAIN.COM		64.75.34.132 
   Record last updated on 18-Oct-2001. 
which obviously is not what you want .... 

Possible/probable reasons: 
it appears you haven't changed the domain servers for the domain. 
you haven't registered your hosts that are running cns. 

your servers show correct forward but incorrect reverse: 

dns.upnix.net. 
    207.153.6.66 

**complete** 
66.6.153.207.in-addr.arpa. 
    host = ip-207-153-6-66.oanet.com. 

**complete** 
dns2.upnix.net. 
    24.64.80.251 

**complete** 
251.80.64.24.in-addr.arpa. 
    host = h24-64-80-251.cg.shawcable.net. 

**complete** 