what is from [sic (wrong)] with this picture? -- Answer: It's Ubuntu, not FreeBSD

[Gary Kline]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 09:44:43PM -0400, Greg Larkin wrote:
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> Jon Radel wrote:
> >  On 9/29/10 4:24 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> >>     Yes!  changing the line in main.cf lets things get thru to my
> >>     server cleanly, thanks for the tip.  I still don't understand
> >>     what's wrong with my DNS files.  Hopefully, other folk on-list
> >>     will see what's messed up.
> > 
> > Your domain registrar is having your dns delegated to 3 nameservers:
> > 
> > thought.org.        86400    IN    NS    ns1.thought.org.
> > thought.org.        86400    IN    NS    ns1.silvertree.org.
> > thought.org.        86400    IN    NS    ns1.twisted4life.com.
> > ;; Received 142 bytes from 2001:500:48::1#53(b2.org.afilias-nst.org) in
> > 32 ms
> > 
> > The last of the 3, ns1.twisted4life.com, is of the opinion that your
> > domain doesn't exist, given that it has no authoritative data and
> > refuses to do recursive lookups for the Internet at large.  I would
> > suspect that this would result in the coming and going visibility that
> > others have reported.  Basically, you don't exist a third of the time.
> > 
> > You need to make sure that all the nameservers you list with your
> > registrar are actually admitting to your existence and are getting
> > up-to-date data.  I recall having this conversation with you before.
> > 
> 
> The first thing I would do is check the results of the DNS scan here
> (http://www.dnscog.com/report/thought.org) and fix all of the listed
> problems.  Keep iterating until the report is clean, or at least doesn't
> have any red flags on it.  I've used this service successfully for a
> while now to debug DNS problems.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Greg
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> Greg Larkin
> 
	Well, long-story-short, yes and no.  I changed the IP addr to the
	same as my firewall's and was able to ping ns1.thought.org ....
	but that created other errors that I didn't understand.  Plus, it
	disabled mail both incoming and outgoing.

	Back to square 0.

	gary


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