complete DNS failure, please help.

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Posted by psychomarine, 09-01-2007, 10:32 PM
First I would like to say, Ive used this site alot, but ive never registered. Shame on me. I love this place though, but now I actually need some real help. Allow me to present you with the data. first we have, uname -a this is centos4.5 I believe. and I have 5 ip addresses. 208.110.67.101 at eth0:0 208.110.67.114 at eth0:1 208.110.67.115 at eth0:2 208.110.67.116 at eth0:3 208.110.67.117 at eth0:4 my problem. I cannot seem to get my dns working properly. I am pointing my domain of nullbytehosting.com to ns1.nullbytehosting.com and ns2.nullbytehosting.com and of course , iuse godaddy, and ive configured that part properly. Ive recently stopped using any control panel software, and started using ssh only. I can access ns1 and ns2 . nullbytehosting.com just fine. www. or just plain old nullbytehosting.com and its a no go. allow me to show you my files. /etc/resolv.conf /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf /var/named/nsa.nullbytehosting.com.db /var/named/nullbytehosting.com.db /var/named/named.local /var/named/named.zero /var/named/localdomain.zone /var/named/named.broadcast and finally, here is a list of the files in the /var/named directory. can someone please inform me of why this isnt allowing me to see nullbytehosting.com www.nullbytehosting.com or any sites I point to ns1.nullbytehosting.com or ns2.nullbytehosting.com clearly accessing ns1.nullbytehosting.com ns2.nullbytehosting.com shows the default page I intend to see, however nullbytehosting.com www.nullbytehosting.com or anyhting like that doesnt exist. A lookup on the dns tools website, shows alot of errors , that google isnt much help with. everyone has their own way, and none seem to put it all together and work properly. thanks for any help anyone can provide. feel free to ask about seeing any other files. thanks.
Posted by Tech4server, 09-02-2007, 12:10 AM
Have a look at this :http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnsrep...ytehosting.com could help you resolve this , there are some errors in your domain dns entries .
Posted by Dexqt, 09-02-2007, 01:47 AM
Yes, shame on you for not registering =p But yes, you have provided more than enough information so I'm sure the general public of WHT will thank you for that, as with this amount of information we can properly diagnose the issue, having not read over any of your configuration files as I'm in a hurry is to check out the log files! - named logs standard messages to the syslog daemon, which places them in /var/log/messages, so to a quick tail (tail -n 100 /var/log/messages) and you should see the errors in there if any. That should indeed help you, if not chuck up the messages log into a public viewable directory and post the link and we'll go from there.
Posted by psychomarine, 09-02-2007, 12:38 PM
ok, thanks for the replies. I changed a few things, a couple of double entries, etc... and this is the error messages I get from the logs, keep in mind, I deleted all logs, then `service named stop` then `service named start` the files are there, so i dont understand why it cant find them, and this no ttl message is very strange, because look here, nullbytehosting.com.db
Posted by Bangalore Job Mob, 09-02-2007, 01:01 PM
Make sure named has permission to read the files wherever you're putting them.
Posted by psychomarine, 09-02-2007, 01:29 PM
ok, I made a discovery. since this is a caching nameserver, I cal only assume that the records that are in /var/named are not the ones it reads. so I put them in /var/named/chroot/var/named and at least half the errors on a dns lookup are gone, and now it seems to be at least accepting it, when typing in a domain. theres some new issues, but I think thats more specific ot another thread. thanks everyone for all their information.