DNS Nameserver... It should be working? Options

[jamiehutber]

So after about 4 weeks of reading forums and asking questions i still don't feel any closer to sloveing my Nameserver problems. Pretty much i think i've got everything done that needs to be, but the fact it doesn't work makes me think i'm doing something wrong

I've read through: http://www.cymru1.net/linux-vps/vps-hints-and-tips.php and http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?showtopic=21265 about 14 thousands times. Starting over and over with no results. I've set up Nameserver Host Records with my registrar to ns1 and ns1 with i.ps set in the print screen.

So i'm sure somebody can see what a fool i am and fingers crossed its a simple thing.

So if any help would be greatly received.


I've edited out the full i.p, not sure why i did that.

Thanks Jamie

[Tomy Durden]

Are you running a firewall? It looks like UDP port 53 is being blocked.

--
transistor ~ # nmap ns1.hutber.com -p 53 -sU

Starting Nmap 4.68 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-01-28 10:03 CST
Interesting ports on 77.68.108.121:
PORT STATE SERVICE
53/udp open|filtered domain

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 2.284 seconds

[jamiehutber]

Thanks for the reply. Had a look and there are no firewalls running. For some reason i'm scared that i have no DNS server running on my server. Is this a possability? The reason behind this thought is in my plesk the DNS (BIND) is turned off and when i try to turn it on it says: "Green tick: Information: Please allow for some time for the service to start."

Any ideas at all?

[James Jhurani]

[root@core ~]# dig @77.68.108.121 ns1.hutber.com

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2 <<>> @77.68.108.121 ns1.hutber.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
[root@core ~]#

The port is still not responding to DNS queries. Did the daemon start properly?

[jamiehutber]

So got DNS bind server working. Doesn't seem to have fixed my problems.

Could you check again now please?

[Squire]

Looks like it's answering now from here.

From one of the servers:

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[root@serv]# dig @77.68.xxx.121 ns1.hutber.com

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2 <<>> @77.68.xxx.121 ns1.hutber.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 47020
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ns1.hutber.com.                        IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ns1.hutber.com.         86400   IN      A       77.68.xxx.121

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
hutber.com.             86400   IN      NS      ns1.hutber.com.
hutber.com.             86400   IN      NS      ns2.hutber.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns2.hutber.com.         86400   IN      A       77.68.xxx.122

;; Query time: 151 msec
;; SERVER: 77.68.xxx.121#53(77.68.xxx.121)
;; WHEN: Thu Jan 29 14:19:46 2009
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 96

From my PC:

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C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>nslookup ns1.hutber.com
Server:  wnvlmons1.wnvlmocoro1.centurytel.net
Address:  66.112.xx.xx

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    ns1.hutber.com
Address:  77.68.xxx.121


C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>nslookup ns2.hutber.com
Server:  wnvlmons1.wnvlmocoro1.centurytel.net
Address:  66.112.xx.xx

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    ns2.hutber.com
Address:  77.68.xxx.122