Rebooting stops resolving for a while 2nd

Mark_Andrews at isc.org Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Tue Jan 6 21:51:43 UTC 2004


> Hi,
> I apologies for my stupidness i've changed everything for the real 
> domains and ip addresses. I'm with server matrix and i've had to do 2 
> reboots today for some strange reason but strangely enough after those 
> reboots everything seems to be working. This seems to be a problem that 
> has no sinc in it any ideas.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 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
> onebm.com.	IN	SOA	69.56.188.6. onebm.com. (

	The MNAME and RNAME fields are wrong.

	MNAME ns1.onebm.com.
	RNAME gary.abertron.co.uk.

> 			2003111224
> 			10800
>                          3600
>                          604800
>                          38400 )
> onebm.com.	IN	A	69.56.188.6
> mail.onebm.com. IN	A	69.56.188.6
> smtp.onebm.com. IN	A	69.56.188.6
> www.onebm.com.  IN	A	69.56.188.6
> ftp.onebm.com.  IN	A	69.56.188.6
> onebm.com.	IN	NS	ns1.onebm.com.
> onebm.com.	IN	NS	ns2.onebm.com.
> onebm.com.	IN	MX	5 mail.onebm.com.
> mail.onebm.com. IN	PTR	onebm.com

	Where are the address (A/AAAA) records for ns1.onebm.com and
	ns2.onebm.com?

	Also there is no point in having two NS records unless you have
	two servers.  The multiple records are for redundancy.

> Client Zone File
> $ttl 38400
> abertron.co.uk.	IN	SOA	abertron01. gary at abertron.co.uk. (

	The MNAME and RNAME fields are wrong.

	MNAME ns1.onebm.com.
	RNAME gary.abertron.co.uk.

> 			2003111245
> 			10800
>                          3600
>                          604800
>                          38400 )
> abertron.co.uk.		IN	A	69.56.188.6
> mail.abertron.co.uk.		IN	A	69.56.188.6
> www.abertron.co.uk.		IN	A	69.56.188.6
> ftp.abertron.co.uk.		IN	A	69.56.188.6
> abertron.co.uk.		IN	NS	ns1.onebm.com.
> abertron.co.uk.		IN	NS	ns2.onebm.com.
> abertron.co.uk.		IN	MX	5 mail.onebm.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
> 
> 
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