Re: bind problem

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "List" <list nchost net>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list redhat com>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: bind problem


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Paul Howarth" <paul city-fan org>
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list redhat com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 8:12 PM
> Subject: Re: bind problem
>
>
> > List wrote:
> > > Weird. I have the zone entry for anonns.com binding to 
> > > advanced.anonns.com as follows:-
> > >
> > > ;Begin of file anonns.com
> > > $TTL 86400
> > > @       IN      SOA     advanced.anonns.com. postmaster.anonns.com. (
> > >                        2005040301
> > >                        3600
> > >                        7200
> > >                        864000
> > >                        86400 )
> > >
> > >                                IN      NS          advanced.anonns.com.
> > >                                IN      NS 
> > > brilliance.anonns.com.
> > >
> > >                                IN      MX     5    advanced.anonns.com.
> > >
> > >                                 IN      A           203.208.228.152
> > > ftp                             IN      A           203.208.228.152
> > > mail                           IN      A           203.208.228.152
> > > pop                           IN      A           203.208.228.152
> > > www                         IN      CNAME       anonns.com.
> > > advanced                   IN      A           203.208.228.152
> > > brilliance                    IN      A           203.208.228.153
> > >
> > > I am getting petty confused.
> >
> > It's difficult to diagnose the problems from here (both my work and home 
> > machines, on completely separate networks) because I'm getting a lot of 
> > DNS query timeouts from your servers (brilliance.anonns.com seems to be 
> > more reliable at the moment). It may be that it's a network connectivity 
> > issue that's underlying your problems. Is it possible for you to get an 
> > additional DNS server on a separate network to act as an additional 
> > secondary for your domains? Both of your current DNS servers are 
> > currently on the same network, which doesn't help reliability.
> >
> > The file above looks OK, though I'd be tempted to add a line:
> > $ORIGIN anonns.com.
> > at the top.
>
> The timeout might be due to the cable in APNC-2.
>
> Quoted Channel Asia News "Some Internet users in Singapore and other parts 
> of Asia may experience some delay when assessing websites hosted outside 
> of Singapore today. This is due to a cable failure in the Asia Pacific 
> Cable Network-2 (APCN-2) reported this morning."
>
> At the present, I do not have a 3rd machine which is on a seperate 
> network. I had added $ORIGIN anonns.com to the file and restarted named. I 
> will layoff for a while. Packing my stuff leaving town for a couple of 
> weeks. Will touch down and get hold of a computer with an internet access 
> in 8 hrs time and check back. By that time, i hope all the caching DNS 
> renew their information.
>
> Thanks alot

Update, i had also remove brilliance.* from the registrar for domain 
dwsmedia.info. Just to test whether advance.* is able to resolve and 
broadcast it.

regards