A question about bind?

[Joseph Watson]

Eivind Olsen wrote:

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> If you look at the output from your host-commands, the first one says it 
> got the answer from the nameserver on 208.232.58.6 (ns1.myeasydomain.com).
> 
> When I now query your nameserver ns3.datakota.com it shows the following 
> problems:
> 
> 1) The domain is delegated to ns2.datakota.net and ns3.datakota.com, but 
> you only have an NS record in your zonefile pointing to ns3.datakota.com. 
> You should have one for ns2.datakota.net as well.
> 
> 2) The MX record points to mail.datakota.com, which is a CNAME to 
> www.datakota.com. MX records should point to A records, not CNAME records.
> 
> 3) You list ns1.datakota.com and ns2.datakota.com as hosts in your zoefile, 
> and they are CNAMEs to www.datakota.com. If they are to be used as 
> nameservers, they should be A records instead.
> 
> 

Hello
	Thanks for the pointers, they should be fixed and I upgreated to a 8.2.3 
version from mandrake.  Thier is only one problem left, and that is 
ns2.datakota.net is regitered with a old address still :( .  That is being 
fixed.

But still  I have a problem that I can not query the dns server directly???

This is what I get:

[jtwatson at Smokey jtwatson]$ host -a www.datakota.com 216.16.67.246
Trying "www.datakota.com"
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
[jtwatson at Smokey jtwatson]$

Am I using the host util wrong????  Does anyone have any idea what is wrong 
here?

I can make a dns change, and because I have the cache time settings set 
real low,  I see the changes in a few minutes!  Because the changes come 
through, I know that the dns server is working when queried by another dns 
server, but I can not query my dns server directly????

Thanks for all the help

Joseph