before i ugrade from 7.3 to 8.x....

Gary Kline kline at thought.org
Sat Jul 16 20:16:42 UTC 2011 

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 11:50:09AM +0200, Bal?zs M?t?ffy wrote:
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> On 16 July 2011 11:27, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>wrote:
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> > On 16/07/2011 06:45, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > i ant to be as sure as possible that my network stuff and mail
> > > Works!   how can i test my /etc/namedb/*  'stuff'?  pretty sure mail
> > > works .. AND finally, i'm glad i stuck with FreeBSD and fer all your
> > > help.
> >
> > http://dnscheck.iis.se/ is a good start.  Given that you're posting to
> > this list, I'd say mail and DNS is probably working.  Maybe not
> > completely perfect, but good enough.  Beyond that, it's usually a matter
> > of checking your logs and dealing with any problems as they come up.
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> Hello,
> 
> If you want to check your zones, you can use "dig @localhost DOMAINTOCHECK
> AXFR" for a local zone transfer from the dns server itself. Or from another
> server "dig @yourdnsserver domainname. Or from a windows server the command
> "nslookup", then in the nslookup query add your dns server as source like
> this: "server yourdnsserver" then your can check the domains by just typing
> them in.
> 
> What exactly you want to check Gary?
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Balazs



HA! Wait; that last was from my desktop, "tao"; the following is
from my server, "ethic"


q5 13:00 Server <ethic> [5016]  dig @localhost thought.org  AXFR  
;; Connection to ::1#53(::1) for thought.org failed: connection
refused.

; <<>> DiG 9.4.-ESV-R2 <<>> @localhost thought.org AXFR
; (2 servers found)
;; global options:  printcmd
thought.org.            38400   IN      SOA     ns1.thought.org.
hostmaster.thought.org. 2011071401 10800 3600 604800 38400
thought.org.            38400   IN      NS      ethic.thought.org.
thought.org.            38400   IN      MX      10
ethic.thought.org.
bsd.thought.org.        38400   IN      CNAME   ethic.thought.org.
cryonics.thought.org.   38400   IN      CNAME   ethic.thought.org.
ethic.thought.org.      38400   IN      A       10.47.0.230
jottings.thought.org.   38400   IN      CNAME   ethic.thought.org.
journey.thought.org.    38400   IN      CNAME   ethic.thought.org.
muuz.thought.org.       38400   IN      CNAME   ethic.thought.org.
pagetwo.thought.org.    38400   IN      CNAME   ethic.thought.org.
philosophy.thought.org. 38400   IN      CNAME   ethic.thought.org.
plato.thought.org.      38400   IN      A       10.47.0.1
tao.thought.org.        38400   IN      A       10.47.0.108
transfinite.thought.org. 38400  IN      CNAME   ethic.thought.org.
wordwranglers.thought.org. 38400 IN     CNAME   ethic.thought.org.
wright.thought.org.     38400   IN      CNAME   ethic.thought.org.
www.thought.org.        38400   IN      CNAME   ethic.thought.org.
zen.thought.org.        38400   IN      A       10.47.0.190
thought.org.            38400   IN      SOA     ns1.thought.org.
hostmaster.thought.org. 2011071401 10800 3600 604800 38400
;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Sat Jul 16 13:01:09 2011
;; XFR size: 19 records (messages 1, bytes 475)




I still don't know hat's causing the failure on port #53 unless it
is something with my firewall.  (I just added a 4watt pfSense box
with a web-only interface.)

Is there a cheetsheet for dig anywhere?

gary

Ps:  The DNSCheck site just finished.....  


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