Domain only resolved locally... Confused.

[Kevin Darcy]

The domain appears to be on billing hold.


- Kevin

Kendall Koning wrote:

> I've got a confusing situation where one of our hosted domains only
> resolves from our own servers, even though everything looks fine @
> internic.  I'm running BIND 8.1 on Debian 2.1...
>
> A local dnsquery looks like everything is set up correctly, and
> everything resolves correctly on the local nameserver.  So the next
> thing I check is internic, and whois is pointing at the correct
> servers...  We got hundreds of other domains on this server that sure
> look like they're set up the same, and they all work...  Am I missing
> something obvious and just need a smack on the head?
>
> Any pointers or RTFMs would be appreciated.
>
> Details below.
>
> --
> Kendall Koning
> Internet Operations Engineer, egl.net
>
> kkoning at bethel -+=(/var/named/r)=+-
> $ dnsquery russrestaurants.com
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 18455
> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 3
> ;;      russrestaurants.com, type = ANY, class = IN
> russrestaurants.com.    1H IN NS        ns.egl.net.
> russrestaurants.com.    1H IN NS        ns2.egl.net.
> russrestaurants.com.    1H IN MX        5 mail.egl.net.
> russrestaurants.com.    1H IN A         208.163.0.31
> russrestaurants.com.    1H IN SOA       ns.egl.net. webmaster.egl.net. (
>                                         20              ; serial
>                                         1H              ; refresh
>                                         10M             ; retry
>                                         1D              ; expiry
>                                         1H )            ; minimum
>
> russrestaurants.com.    1H IN NS        ns.egl.net.
> russrestaurants.com.    1H IN NS        ns2.egl.net.
> ns.egl.net.             1H IN A         208.159.114.2
> ns2.egl.net.            1H IN A         208.159.114.6
> mail.egl.net.           1H IN A         208.159.114.4
>
> kkoning at bethel -+=(/var/named/r)=+-
> $ whois russrestaurants.com
> < Boring - Deleted>
>
>    Name Server: NS.EGL.NET
>    Name Server: NS2.EGL.NET
>
> Another local ISP's nameserver doesn't resolve the domain
>
> kkoning at bethel -+=(/var/named/e)=+-
> $ nslookup russrestaurants.com ns.macatawa.org
> Server:  freenet.macatawa.org
> Address:  206.26.113.2
>
> *** freenet.macatawa.org can't find russrestaurants.com: Non-existent
> host/domain
>
> The zonefile for this domain looks like:
>
> @                       IN  SOA ns.egl.net. webmaster.egl.net. (
>                                 20           ; serial number
>                                 3600        ; refresh
>                                 600         ; retry
>                                 86400       ; expire
>                                 3600      ) ; minimum TTL
>
> @                       NS      ns.egl.net.
> @                       NS      ns2.egl.net.
>
> @                       A       208.163.0.31
> @                       MX      5       mail.egl.net.
> www                     CNAME   @
>
> And the entry in my named.conf
>
> zone "russrestaurants.com" {
>         type master;
>         file "r/russrestaurants.com.dns";
> };