I have two servers. server1.our-hosts.com and server2.our-hosts.com. Server2 is a new cPanel box.

I set up DNS on server2 in accordance with the posts here, and everything is resolving okay EXCEPT domains hosted on server1!

Server2 can resolve names on itself and it can resolve names like google.com, but it cannot resolv anything on server1?! I am baffled by this.

My resolv.conf is pretty straightforward:

domain server2.our-hosts.com
search server2.our-hosts.com
nameserver 207.44.194.54
nameserver 207.44.195.16


Anyone have ANY idea what this could be?

change
domain server2.our-hosts.com
search server2.our-hosts.com

to

domain our-hosts.com
search our-hosts.com

Have tried that, and just tried again and restarted bind, and still no joy.

Anyhting else you can think of?

can u ping server1

Kind of. The firewall on server1 prevents ping responses, but it does come up with the right ip on server 2.

Okay, so ONE site on server 1 can be looked up on server 2. Weird. But no others come up.

try restarting bind and see what happens

One more restart can't hurt!

Nope, no joy. Its just weird that it can resolve everything except stuff on server1

Well, at the end of the day, it seems that RS did not wipe the drive before they resold this server.

They were very good about things though and restored the system gratis and did it within a couple of hours of my bringing the issue to their attention.

Has this issue been resolved? Which is server1 and which is server2? The DNS records on the second server, the last box your purchased, needs to have the same DNS records on server 1 as well as the identical records on server 2.

Eg server 1 has ns1 and ns2

Now you want to setup server 2 with ns3 and ns4

Now go back to sever 1 and add ns3 and ns4

End result

ns1 ns2 ns3 and4 is on server1

ns3 ns4 is on server2

Take anything else you need!

For some inane reason on my part, I forgot to add ns3 and ns4 to server1. Fixed now though with some help from gpan.