Can't seem to dig my domain

[Ryan Ritten]

Hey Kevin,

Thanx aloot for your reply.  The dns server for my domain is actually
run by me... I am fairly new to all of this so if if my dns setup
looks real bad that's why :)

You asked where the A records for ns1.thesparticusarena.com.  Where
did you see the "ns1.thesparticusarena.com" mentioned?  I didn't see
that in the dig printout... I only ask this because when I went to an
online dig website... it also said somethign about
ns1.thesparticusarena.com...... ns1.thesparticusarena.com was what I
named my old name server... I renamed it to ns5.thesparticusarena.com
a while ago.

So, I guess my question is... where about do i have
ns1.thesparticusarena.com in my conf files?.... because I want to
chnage it to the new nameserver name (ns5...)

If I changed that to ns5.... do you think that my website
(leadfoundation.ca) might start working again? or am I still way off
from finding out what's wrong?

All I know is that I want leadoundation to use
ns5.thesparticusarena.com as a nameserver... which will hopefulyl then
load my website...

If you can point me in the right direction it would be "greatly"
appreciated.  I would owe you bigtime.... maybe next time i can help
you with your dns... hehe... jokes :P

Ok... thanx again...

-Ryan


Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote in message news:<bhe1ki$30qg$1 at sf1.isc.org>...
> Ryan Ritten wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I run redhat 7.3
> >
> > I run 3 different websites from my webserver.  All three of these
> > website weere working fine until a few days ago... one of them stopped
> > working.  As far as I know I changed nothign at all.
> >
> > The domain that isn't working is : http://www.leadfoundation.ca
> >
> > Could someone please try going to that domain?  For me, it just sits
> > there and never loads.  I tried to dig all 3 of my domains... they all
> > dig fine except this one... if I try and dig this one I get :
> >
> > bash-2.05# dig leadfoundation.ca
> >
> > ; <<>> DiG 9.1.3 <<>> leadfoundation.ca
> > ;; global options:  printcmd
> > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> >
> > No servers could be reached?  What could cause that?  I do know that
> > the dns info for that name should be correct... and I even turn off my
> > firewall to test it...
> >
> > any other ideas?  I am so lost... :(
> 
> The real problem is with the thesparticusarena.com zone:
> 
> % dig thesparticusarena.com axfr @68.145.122.20
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.2rc1 <<>> thesparticusarena.com axfr @68.145.122.20
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> thesparticusarena.com.  259200  IN      SOA     thesparticusarena.com.
> root.thesparticusarena.com. 200208076 28800 7200 2419200 86400
> thesparticusarena.com.  259200  IN      A       68.145.122.20
> thesparticusarena.com.  259200  IN      NS
> ns5.thesparticusarena.com.
> thesparticusarena.com.  259200  IN      TXT     "The Sparticus Arena"
> localhost.thesparticusarena.com. 259200 IN A    127.0.0.1
> www.thesparticusarena.com. 259200 IN    A       68.145.122.20
> thesparticusarena.com.  259200  IN      SOA     thesparticusarena.com.
> root.thesparticusarena.com. 200208076 28800 7200 2419200 86400
> ;; Query time: 109 msec
> ;; SERVER: 68.145.122.20#53(68.145.122.20)
> ;; WHEN: Wed Aug 13 14:43:27 2003
> ;; XFR size: 8 records
> 
> %
> 
> Where are the A records for ns1.thesparticusarena.com and
> ns5.thesparticusarena.com (the domain is delegated to both of those
> names)? Where is the NS record for ns1.thesparticusarena.com? Whoever set
> up this zone went to all the trouble of creating a nice descriptive
> TXT record, but they forgot certain critical elements which would make
> this domain work reliably.
> 
> A 3-day TTL is a little excessive IMO for "leaf" records like A & TXT:
> does the admin realize that it'll take that long for any changes to those
> records to be seen by the rest of the Internet?
> 
> Since leadfoundation.ca is delegated to thesparticusarena.com
> nameservers, these problems affect it as well.
> 
> 
> -Kevin