Newbie despair

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9smfir$b4d at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
voravor <voravor at subdimension.com> wrote:
>no warning, nothing in my logs to indicate why, my name server just
>stopped responding to outside requests. all services respond to direct ip
>requests. a couple of hours ago, prolly about 6-8, my name server not
>longer works. i changed nada. begin your day with dns!
>my ip is 66.108.208.98
>my domain is thirdeyemediaworks.com. 

Your domain registration lists ns76.worldnic.com as a server for the
domain, but it doesn't seem to have the domain installed on it:

% dig thirdeyemediaworks.com any @ns76.worldnic.com +norec

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> thirdeyemediaworks.com any @ns76.worldnic.com +norec 
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 27587
;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;	thirdeyemediaworks.com, type = ANY, class = IN

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
..			0S IN NS	A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
..			0S IN NS	B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
..			0S IN NS	C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
..			0S IN NS	D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
..			0S IN NS	E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
..			0S IN NS	F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
..			0S IN NS	G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
..			0S IN NS	H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
..			0S IN NS	I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
..			0S IN NS	J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
..			0S IN NS	K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
..			0S IN NS	L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
..			0S IN NS	M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.

;; Total query time: 21 msec
;; FROM: tools.genuity.com to SERVER: ns76.worldnic.com  216.168.225.216
;; WHEN: Mon Nov 12 11:39:52 2001
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 40  rcvd: 251


-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
Genuity, Woburn, MA
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