Can't seem to dig my domain

[Kevin Darcy]

Ryan Ritten wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I run redhat 7.3
>
> I run 3 different websites from my webserver.  All three of these
> website weere working fine until a few days ago... one of them stopped
> working.  As far as I know I changed nothign at all.
>
> The domain that isn't working is : http://www.leadfoundation.ca
>
> Could someone please try going to that domain?  For me, it just sits
> there and never loads.  I tried to dig all 3 of my domains... they all
> dig fine except this one... if I try and dig this one I get :
>
> bash-2.05# dig leadfoundation.ca
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.1.3 <<>> leadfoundation.ca
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
>
> No servers could be reached?  What could cause that?  I do know that
> the dns info for that name should be correct... and I even turn off my
> firewall to test it...
>
> any other ideas?  I am so lost... :(

The real problem is with the thesparticusarena.com zone:

% dig thesparticusarena.com axfr @68.145.122.20

; <<>> DiG 9.2.2rc1 <<>> thesparticusarena.com axfr @68.145.122.20
;; global options:  printcmd
thesparticusarena.com.  259200  IN      SOA     thesparticusarena.com.
root.thesparticusarena.com. 200208076 28800 7200 2419200 86400
thesparticusarena.com.  259200  IN      A       68.145.122.20
thesparticusarena.com.  259200  IN      NS
ns5.thesparticusarena.com.
thesparticusarena.com.  259200  IN      TXT     "The Sparticus Arena"
localhost.thesparticusarena.com. 259200 IN A    127.0.0.1
www.thesparticusarena.com. 259200 IN    A       68.145.122.20
thesparticusarena.com.  259200  IN      SOA     thesparticusarena.com.
root.thesparticusarena.com. 200208076 28800 7200 2419200 86400
;; Query time: 109 msec
;; SERVER: 68.145.122.20#53(68.145.122.20)
;; WHEN: Wed Aug 13 14:43:27 2003
;; XFR size: 8 records

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Where are the A records for ns1.thesparticusarena.com and
ns5.thesparticusarena.com (the domain is delegated to both of those
names)? Where is the NS record for ns1.thesparticusarena.com? Whoever set
up this zone went to all the trouble of creating a nice descriptive
TXT record, but they forgot certain critical elements which would make
this domain work reliably.

A 3-day TTL is a little excessive IMO for "leaf" records like A & TXT:
does the admin realize that it'll take that long for any changes to those
records to be seen by the rest of the Internet?

Since leadfoundation.ca is delegated to thesparticusarena.com
nameservers, these problems affect it as well.


-Kevin