bind-users Digest, Vol 2771, Issue 1

Wed Nov 22 14:12:22 UTC 2017

. . .well, I've received a lot of comment from several people, *most quite
helpful and appreciated*; . . .some rather critical and condescending.
Regardless, I'll just pursue this resolve while using other resources .
(BTW, under consideration, " https://www.iana.org/help/name
server-requirements".)

Thanks again, RW

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 6:00 AM, <bind-users-request at lists.isc.org> wrote:

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>    1. Re: bind-users Digest, Vol 2770, Issue 2 (Alan Clegg)
>    2. Re: Domain Not Resolving (Matus UHLAR - fantomas)
>    3. Re: Domain Not Resolving (Reindl Harald)
>    4. Re: Domain Not Resolving (wbrown at e1b.org)
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> From: Alan Clegg <alan at clegg.com>
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> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 12:13:17 -0500
> Subject: Re: bind-users Digest, Vol 2770, Issue 2
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> On 11/21/17 12:05 PM, Ron Wingfield wrote:
> > . . .well, I never expected to get "flamed" as by GED, "/As a general
> > observation, not knowing what you're doing is dangerous
> > on the Internet.  Please take some time out of your undoubtedly busy
> > life to try to ensure that you aren't a menace to the rest of us.  A
> > good start might be to read the famous DNS and BIND/."
> >
> > Actually I have two copies of Cricket Liu's book, both 4th and 5th
> > edition.  (4th ed. autographed.)
> I worked with Cricket and owning books is worthless without understanding.
>
> > Regardless, the reason for two name servers pointing to the same IP
> > address is because the domain registrar requires two designated name
> > servers; so since we only have the one platform running DNS with BIND
> > Version: 9.10.2 Perhaps in the future a second installation may be
> > incorporated.
>
> Buy a $5/month VPS from Linode, Digital Ocean, or whatever.
>
> The reason for the "two servers" is a valid one.
>
> AlanC
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> From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk>
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> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 18:25:44 +0100
> Subject: Re: Domain Not Resolving
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>> Am 21.11.2017 um 14:42 schrieb G.W. Haywood via bind-users:
>>
>>> The address for localhost (127.0.0.1) should be in /etc/hosts,
>>> not in your zone file, and very probably it already is
>>>
>>
> On 21.11.17 15:10, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
>> that part is not true
>>
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1537 says:
>> Note that all domains that contain hosts should have a "localhost" A
>> record in them
>>
>
> note that rfc 1537 has been obsoleted (>20 years ago) by rfc 1912 that does
> not contain this test.
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> From: Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
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> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 18:30:46 +0100
> Subject: Re: Domain Not Resolving
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> Am 21.11.2017 um 18:05 schrieb Ron Wingfield:
>
>> . . .well, I never expected to get "flamed" as by GED, "/As a general
>> observation, not knowing what you're doing is dangerous
>> on the Internet.  Please take some time out of your undoubtedly busy life
>> to try to ensure that you aren't a menace to the rest of us.  A
>> good start might be to read the famous DNS and BIND/."
>>
>
> what else did you expect by a configuration plain wrong in that many
> aspects?
>
> Actually I have two copies of Cricket Liu's book, both 4th and 5th
>> edition.  (4th ed. autographed.)
>>
>
> https://www.iana.org/help/nameserver-requirements are the required docs
>
> Regardless, the reason for two name servers pointing to the same IP
>> address is because the domain registrar requires two designated name servers
>>
>
> because of https://www.iana.org/help/nameserver-requirements and he
> should not have allowed this setup at all because "Minimum number of name
> servers - There must be at least two NS records listed in a delegation, and
> the hosts must not resolve to the same IP address"
>
> and the next paragraph makes it clear that even a second machine in the
> same subnet is not enough for obvious reasons
>
> Network diversity
> The name servers must be in at least two topologically separate networks.
> A network is defined as an origin autonomous system in the BGP routing
> table. The requirement is assessed through inspection of views of the BGP
> routing table
>
> so since we only have the one platform running DNS with BIND Version:
>> 9.10.2 Perhaps in the future a second installation may be incorporated.
>>
>
> then you can't host your own DNS severS - it's that easy
>
> Regardless this system has worked well since 2002.  Only as of 3 NOV 2017
>> has it started failing
>>
> by luck
>
>
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> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 13:13:26 -0500
> Subject: Re: Domain Not Resolving
> Does the lone DNS server even respond on the local network?  Do you see
> DNS traffic flowing to that server?
>
> Time for the divide and conquer method of troubleshooting to find where
> the failure is occurring.
>
> Good luck.
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