[GRLUG] DNS Weirdness

[Dan Taylor]

dan at thinkpad:~$ dig ns wtwebdev.com

; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-4-Debian <<>> ns wtwebdev.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 3495
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;wtwebdev.com.            IN    NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
wtwebdev.com.        21460    IN    NS    ns2.
wtwebdev.com.        21460    IN    NS    ns1.


Your NS records appear to be ns1 and ns2.  They need to be
ns1.wtwebdev.com. and ns2.webdev.com. (with the trailing periods).
And don't forget to increment your serial number once you change that.

- Dan

On 06/23/2014 05:14 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> OK, .. here's a head scratcher! One of our clients is using SRSPlus as a
> domain registrar, and we're *trying* to use a local copy of bind.
>
> Problem is, the base records for the domain DNS servers keep 'vanishing'!
> For example, at the end of last week, ns1 was visible but ns2 was not:
>
> $ host ns1.wtwebdev.com
> ns1.wtwebdev.com has address 208.82.146.90
>
> and ns1 was not:
>
> $ host ns2.wtwebdev.com
> ns2.wtwebdev.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
>
> Today, ns1 is gone and ns2 is visible!
>
> If course, they resolve just fine *using* ns1 or ns2, what I can't figure
> out is why the base record keeps disappearing. If it were a caching issue,
> would not ns1 *stay* visible? SRSPlus says it works fine there, of course.
>
> Testing from outside machines yields mixed results, there seems to be no
> pattern to the problem. If anyone can contribute some DNSfoo, please do!
>
> 	Lee
>
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