Disappearing Domain

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Greg Smolyn <smolyn at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:

> I've recently set up a bind installation to run several domains off of 
> one server.

> The domains are registered with several registrars, but their 
> configurations are nearly identical and 2 out of 3 seem to work just fine.

> However, one domain: eplyweddings.com seems to work only intermittantly. 
>     A dig lookup will sometimes return the right records, but every now 
> and then returns nothing.  When it _does_ return nothing, if I redo the 
> query a few times, it eventually will work.

Server dns2.gridfx.com (64.69.91.57) seems Lame ( does not 
answer authortivly).

You also has an illegal MX record; mail.eplyweddings.com. , 
this is a CNAME to  eply.eplyweddings.com.

Replace with :
eplyweddings.com.  IN MX eply.eplyweddings.com. 

> This seems to be the case all over the net.  Any ideas?
> Thanks!
> -greg


> Here's my named.conf and eplyweddings.com zone file:

> named.conf
> ===========
> options {
>          directory "/var/named";
> };

> zone "." IN {
>     type hint;
>     file "root.hints";
> };

> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
>    type master;
>    notify no;
>    file "zone/127.0.0";
> };

> zone "eply.com" {
>   type master;
>   notify yes;
>   file "zone/eply.com";
> };

> zone "eplyweddings.com" {
>    type master;
>    notify yes;
>    file "zone/eplyweddings.com";
> };

> zone "eply.ca" {
>   type master;
>   notify yes;
> file "zone/eply.ca";
> };

> ================
> eplyweddings.com
> ================

> $TTL 3D
> @       IN      SOA     ns.eply.ca. hostmaster.eplyweddings.com. (
>                          2002102002       ; serial, todays date + todays
>                          8H              ; refresh, seconds
>                          2H              ; retry, seconds
>                          4W              ; expire, seconds
>                          1D )            ; minimum, seconds
> ;
>                  NS      ns.eply.ca.
>                  NS      dns2.gridfx.com.
>                  MX      10 mail  ; Primary Mail Exchanger
>                  TXT     "Eply Weddings"
> ;
> localhost             A       127.0.0.1
> eply                  A       64.69.91.6
> www                   A       64.69.91.19
> ;
> ns              CNAME   ns.eply.ca.
> ftp             CNAME   eply
> mail            CNAME   eply
> news            CNAME   eply



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