RE: Unable to see an Australian.com.au domain

[COLIN COMOLLATTI]

 G'Day All

The domains I am having trouble with are:

tsw.com.au
capricorniacu.com.au


; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> tsw.com.au 
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      tsw.com.au, type = A, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
tsw.com.au.             23h42m IN A     203.58.62.1

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
tsw.com.au.             23h42m IN NS    dns.tsw.com.au.
tsw.com.au.             23h42m IN NS    ns1.telstra.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
dns.tsw.com.au.         18m32s IN A     203.58.62.2
ns1.telstra.net.        1d23h37m14s IN A  139.130.4.5

;; Total query time: 6 msec
;; FROM: localhost to SERVER: default -- 203.47.110.202
;; WHEN: Wed Sep 26 09:21:28 2001
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 28  rcvd: 123

             ***************************

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> capricorniacu.com.au 
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      capricorniacu.com.au, type = A, class = IN

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
capricorniacu.com.au.   44m3s IN SOA    dns.tsw.com.au. hostmaster.tsw.com.au. (
                                        2001030501      ; serial
                                        1H              ; refresh
                                        30M             ; retry
                                        6w4d7h6m40s     ; expiry
                                        1H )            ; minimum


;; Total query time: 33 msec
;; FROM: localhost to SERVER: default -- 203.47.110.202
;; WHEN: Wed Sep 26 09:18:42 2001
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 38  rcvd: 93



Thank you for your time

Col Comollatti

-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Finkel
To: bind-users at isc.org
Sent: 9/25/01 11:26 PM
Subject: Re: Unable to see an Australian.com.au domain 

COLIN COMOLLATTI <c.comollatti at cqu.edu.au> wrote:

>I would like to know if my DNS set-up would stop me from seeing a
>domain or is the site I am trying to see.
>
>What should I be looking for? Any good websites? 
>
>I have the book "DNS and BIND" ver3 by Albitz & Liu. 
>
>Problem: 
>I have attempted to send an email to a australiandomain.com.au domain.
>I can reach this domain from outside my network. But I can not see it
>from within my network. I am unable to send an email to the company
>hosting the domain. I am able to see their website.
>
>I have no trouble with any other domains, Australian or World wide. 

The problem MAY be with the site to which you are trying to send e-mail.
I have a problem sending e-mail to

     aone.net.au

But I used the doc-2.1.4 utility to discover that all four of the
nameservers for that domain are not responding authoritatively.  So I
sent e-mail to the net.au DNS administrator.  I wish
I could use the same utility to see if your problem is the same, but
you have not given us the information we need to diagnose your problem.

> To keep companies happies I have not used their correct domain names.
> As I said at the it my be my servers.

I would assume that if a company has a mis-configured DNS then the DNS
administrator(s) for that company would want to know.  I do not think
that "keeping them happy" is consistent with this view.
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