NS hosed! Please Advise

Patrick Klos pklos at osmium.mv.net
Thu Oct 26 17:22:27 UTC 2006


In article <ehqp0a$2h9n$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
Odhiambo Washington  <wash at wananchi.com> wrote:
>Hello there,
>
>Out of nowhere, my name server cannot resolve its own name:
>This is a query while I am logged into the same box:
>
>
>5$ nslookup ns2.wananchi.com
>Server:  ns2.wananchi.com
>Address:  62.8.64.4
>
>*** ns2.wananchi.com can't find ns2.wananchi.com: Non-existent host/domain

My first thought would be to make sure your named server was still
running, but you probably notice that pretty quick, right??

>I have looked and looked and now I believe a "third eye" is perfectly in 
>order. I have also used some web-based tools (out of desperation) -
>
>http://demo.dnsdoctor.org/

This one tells me you don't have anything listening on port 53.  Maybe
your named server isn't running after all??

>http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/sleuth/
>
>They also still confirm my fears...
>
>I am probably just missing some logging option to reveal this. I have
>added
>
>!named
>*.*	/var/log/named.log
>
>to syslog.conf. However that log file does not reveal much in terms of 
>why there is NO A record for ns2.wananchi.com, even though I can see one
>in the zone file! named-checkzone says we are fine... while we are 
>not:-(
>
>
>[root at ns2]#named-checkzone wananchi.com /etc/namedb/views/internal/wananchi.com
>zone wananchi.com/IN: loaded serial 2006102602
>OK
>[root at ns2]#named-checkzone wananchi.com /etc/namedb/views/external/wananchi.com
>zone wananchi.com/IN: loaded serial 2006102602
>OK
>
>
>Now I remain simply stumped.
>Any advise to identify the problem would be most helpful.

It doesn't seem like it would be related, but your domain HAS expired
according to DOSTSER.COM:

Registrant:
   Pending Deletion
   P.O. Box 821650
   Vancouver, WA  98682
   US

   Registrar: DOTSTER
   Domain Name: WANACHI.COM
      Created on: 21-OCT-04
      Expires on: 21-OCT-06
      Last Updated on: 22-OCT-06

   Administrative, Technical Contact:
   pending-delete at registerapi.com
   Pending Deletion
   P.O. Box 821650
   Vancouver, WA  98682
   US
   +1.360-449-5933


   Domain servers in listed order:
      NS1.NAMERESOLVE.COM
      NS2.NAMERESOLVE.COM
      NS3.NAMERESOLVE.COM
      NS4.NAMERESOLVE.COM

End of Whois Information

Patrick
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