Rebooting stops resolving for a while 2nd

G. Roderick Singleton gerry at pathtech.org
Wed Jan 7 17:58:19 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 06:15, Gary Mayor wrote:
> Gary Mayor wrote:
> > 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. (
> > 			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
> > 
> > Client Zone File
> > $ttl 38400
> > abertron.co.uk.	IN	SOA	abertron01. gary at 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
> > 
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> So far i've changed the main onebm.com record to this,
> 
> $ttl 38400
> onebm.com.	IN	SOA	69.56.188.6. onebm.com. (
> 			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
> ns1.onebm.com.	IN	A	69.56.188.6
> ns2.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
> 
> Seems to be working ok. Is there anything else that needs doing?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Gary

Please see
http://www.dslwebserver.com/main/fr_index.html?/main/sbs-write-a-zone-file-subdomain.html for basic instructions on how to create a zone file.

-- 
Gerry Roderick Singleton <gerry at pathtech.org>
416-452-4583



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