When 2nd nameserver fails....

[Seth Roth]

Jim reid - always bashing on peoplez ~ has points, but NO tact ~

Seth Roth
-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of Jim Reid
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 11:56 AM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
Subject: Re: When 2nd nameserver fails....=20

>>>>> "Marco" =3D=3D Quarco  <dontbother at hotmail.com> writes:

    Marco> Hi, I registered a couple domains (.nl) some weeks ago..
    Marco> Primary DNS was our server, secondairy (slave) DNS was my
    Marco> computer at home..  (This had to be a temporarely solution)

    Marco> Now I have moved to another address and as result my (home)
    Marco> connection has been broken...  Result:: The domains which
    Marco> my home-computer was slave DNS'ing for are UNREACHABLE!!

    Marco> So, my question: How come a domain is unreachable when a
    Marco> (2nd) DNS fails...  What is the idea behind multiple DNS
    Marco> servers if it doesnt work ?? :-)

It does work. You just don't have it set up correctly. Just think
about this for a moment. It works for everyone else, but not for
you. Who's likely to be in the wrong: you or the rest of the world?

    Marco> Or have I mis-configured something???

That's blatantly obvious. You've screwed up both (all?) the name
servers for your zones.

    Marco> Hope you can help me out with this one :-)

No chance. At least not with the content-free posting you made. How
do you expect anyone here to help when you don't even tell us the
domain names that are failing? Mind-reading and telepathy don't work
well in this list. Provide real data: verbatim named.conf files and
name server logs, exact copies of relevant zone files, precide details
of what you did, etc, etc. We need to see *exactly* what your name
servers see.