Rebooting stops resolving for a while

Gary Mayor gary at abertron.co.uk
Tue Jan 6 08:35:56 UTC 2004


bill wrote:
>>Hi,
>>When I reboot my server sometimes my domains and mail servers are not 
>>available for an unknown amount of time but after several hours 
>>everything returns to normal and everything can be accessed. The strange 
>>thing is if after a reboot I try to access the domain or mail server 
>>from my machine at home it doesn't work but if I go somewhere on the net 
>>and try a ping test from somewhere else in the world it always works. 
>>Can someone take a look at my main zone file and and a client zone file 
>>and tell me if anything doesn't look right.
>>
>>Main Zone File
>>$ttl 38400
>>mydomain.com.	IN	SOA	55.55.55.55. mydomain.com. (
>>			2003111224
>>			10800
>>                         3600
>>                         604800
>>                         38400 )
>>mydomain.com.	IN	A	55.55.55.55
>>mail.mydomain.com. IN	A	55.55.55.55
>>smtp.mydomain.com. IN	A	55.55.55.55
>>www.mydomain.com.  IN	A	55.55.55.55
>>ftp.mydomain.com.  IN	A	55.55.55.55
>>mydomain.com.	IN	NS	ns1.mydomain.com.
>>mydomain.com.	IN	NS	ns2.mydomain.com.
>>mydomain.com.	IN	MX	5 mail.mydomain.com.
>>mail.mydomain.com. IN	PTR	mydomain.com
>>
>>Client Zone File
>>$ttl 38400
>>clientdomain.com.	IN	SOA	abertron01. gary at abertron.co.uk. (
>>			2003111245
>>			10800
>>                         3600
>>                         604800
>>                         38400 )
>>clientdomain.com.		IN	A	55.55.55.55
>>mail.clientdomain.com.		IN	A	55.55.55.55
>>www.clientdomain.com.		IN	A	55.55.55.55
>>ftp.clientdomain.com.		IN	A	55.55.55.55
>>clientdomain.com.		IN	NS	ns1.mydomain.com.
>>clientdomain.com.		IN	NS	ns2.mydomain.com.
>>clientdomain.com.		IN	MX	5 mail.mydomain.com.
>>
>>Basically nothing works from from home computer after I reboot the 
>>server but I seem to be able to access the server from elsewhere after a 
>>reboot so what on earth is going on here.
>>
>>I'm totaly confused any ideas.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Gary Mayor
> 
> 
> 	Well....
> 
> 	Net 55 is assigned to the US Army.  None of their DNS reverse
> 	maps to the delegation "clientdomain.com".  Have you hijacked
> 	their address space or are you using it with permission?
> 
> 	For that matter, the domain, "clientdomain.com" is registered
> 	to John Deneen, of Villanova, PA.  It does not appear that he
> 	has delegated any responsibility for this domain to you.  Have
> 	you hijacked this also?
> 
> 	I would suggest that you correct your DNS entries to use your 
> 	own delegations and cease and desist using others delegations.
> 	Things will work so much better for everyone.
> 
> --bill	
> 

Hi,
Sorry mydomain.com and clientdomain.com are just names I made up I 
didn't realise that they were registered just imagine they are imaginary.

Thanks

Gary



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