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Barry Finkel b19141 at achilles.ctd.anl.gov
Wed Jan 28 15:41:04 UTC 2004


Geoff Austin <geoff at w-sys.co.uk> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I recently set up a couple of dns servers for my domain and had the parent
>domain point at them.
>
>They work fine from my side (looking out) and they work fine for some of the
>people trying to resolve machines in my domain. However, there are several
>people who cannot resolve addresses in my domain.
>
>I have run www.dnsreport.com against the domain and it seems happy.
>
>I'm running bind 9.2.2-p3 on fedora
>The domain name is w-sys.co.uk
>The ip address of the primary DNS server is 82.68.177.91
>The ip address of the secondary DNS server is 82.68.177.92
>Examples of DNS servers that cannot resolve are:
>  ns1.bt.net
>  ns1.ip-plus.net
>Examples that can:
>  212.23.2.11
>  212.23.6.35
>
>If any body can give me some pointers it would be much appreciated.

Here is the ouptut of doc-2.1.4:

britaine% doc -x -v w-sys.co.uk
Doc-2.1.4: doc -x -v w-sys.co.uk
Doc-2.1.4: Starting test of w-sys.co.uk.   parent is co.uk.
Doc-2.1.4: Test date - Wed Jan 28 09:17:54 CST 2004
soa @ns1.nic.uk. for co.uk. has serial: 2004012801
soa @ns2.nic.uk. for co.uk. has serial: 2004012801
soa @ns3.nic.uk. for co.uk. has serial: 2004012801
soa @ns4.nic.uk. for co.uk. has serial: 2004012801
soa @ns5.nic.uk. for co.uk. has serial: 2004012801
soa @nsa.nic.uk. for co.uk. has serial: 2004012801
soa @nsb.nic.uk. for co.uk. has serial: 2004012801
soa @sec-nom.dns.uk.psi.net. for co.uk. has serial: 2004012801
SOA serial #'s agree for co.uk. domain
Found 2 NS and 2 glue records for w-sys.co.uk. @ns1.nic.uk. (non-AUTH)
Found 2 NS and 2 glue records for w-sys.co.uk. @ns2.nic.uk. (non-AUTH)
Found 2 NS and 2 glue records for w-sys.co.uk. @ns3.nic.uk. (non-AUTH)
Found 2 NS and 2 glue records for w-sys.co.uk. @ns4.nic.uk. (non-AUTH)
Found 2 NS and 2 glue records for w-sys.co.uk. @ns5.nic.uk. (non-AUTH)
Found 10 NS and 2 glue records for w-sys.co.uk. @nsa.nic.uk. (AUTH)
Found 10 NS and 2 glue records for w-sys.co.uk. @nsb.nic.uk. (AUTH)
Found 2 NS and 2 glue records for w-sys.co.uk. @sec-nom.dns.uk.psi.net. (non-AUTH)
DNServers for co.uk.
   === 2 were also authoritatve for w-sys.co.uk.
   === 6 were non-authoritative for w-sys.co.uk.
Servers for co.uk. that are also authoritative for w-sys.co.uk.
   === agree on NS records for w-sys.co.uk.
Servers for co.uk. (not also authoritative for w-sys.co.uk.)
   === agree on NS records for w-sys.co.uk.
ERROR: NS list for w-sys.co.uk. from parent servers differ
   ===  authoritative disagree with those not AUTH for w-sys.co.uk.
*** w-sys.co.uk..ns.ns1.nic.uk. Wed Jan 28 09:17:56 2004
--- w-sys.co.uk..ns.nsa.nic.uk. Wed Jan 28 09:17:58 2004
***************
*** 1,2 ****
--- 1,10 ----
  dns.w-sys.co.uk.
  mail.w-sys.co.uk.
+ ns1.nic.uk.
+ ns2.nic.uk.
+ ns3.nic.uk.
+ ns4.nic.uk.
+ ns5.nic.uk.
+ nsa.nic.uk.
+ nsb.nic.uk.
+ sec-nom.dns.uk.psi.net.
NS list summary for w-sys.co.uk. from parent (co.uk.) servers
  == dns.w-sys.co.uk. mail.w-sys.co.uk. ns1.nic.uk.
  == ns2.nic.uk. ns3.nic.uk. ns4.nic.uk.
  == ns5.nic.uk. nsa.nic.uk. nsb.nic.uk. sec-nom.dns.uk.psi.net.
soa @dns.w-sys.co.uk. for w-sys.co.uk. serial: 2004011903
soa @mail.w-sys.co.uk. for w-sys.co.uk. serial: 2004011903
soa @ns1.nic.uk. for w-sys.co.uk. serial: 
ERROR: no SOA record for w-sys.co.uk. from ns1.nic.uk.
soa @ns2.nic.uk. for w-sys.co.uk. serial: 
ERROR: no SOA record for w-sys.co.uk. from ns2.nic.uk.
soa @ns3.nic.uk. for w-sys.co.uk. serial: 
ERROR: no SOA record for w-sys.co.uk. from ns3.nic.uk.
soa @ns4.nic.uk. for w-sys.co.uk. serial: 
ERROR: no SOA record for w-sys.co.uk. from ns4.nic.uk.
soa @ns5.nic.uk. for w-sys.co.uk. serial: 
ERROR: no SOA record for w-sys.co.uk. from ns5.nic.uk.
soa @nsa.nic.uk. for w-sys.co.uk. serial: 
ERROR: no SOA record for w-sys.co.uk. from nsa.nic.uk.
soa @nsb.nic.uk. for w-sys.co.uk. serial: 
ERROR: no SOA record for w-sys.co.uk. from nsb.nic.uk.
soa @sec-nom.dns.uk.psi.net. for w-sys.co.uk. serial: 
ERROR: no SOA record for w-sys.co.uk. from sec-nom.dns.uk.psi.net.
SOA serial #'s agree for w-sys.co.uk.
Authoritative domain (w-sys.co.uk.) servers agree on NS for w-sys.co.uk.
NS list from w-sys.co.uk. authoritative servers matches list from
  === parent (co.uk.) servers not authoritative for w-sys.co.uk.
Checking 1 potential addresses for hosts at w-sys.co.uk.
  == 82.68.177.91
in-addr PTR record found for 82.68.177.91
Summary:
   ERRORS found for w-sys.co.uk. (count: 9)
Done testing w-sys.co.uk.  Wed Jan 28 09:18:05 CST 2004


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Barry S. Finkel
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