Unable to query the nameserver

[Dotan Cohen]

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 02:35, Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net> wrote:
> Quite right, too many people with paranoia come here looking for help but
> refuse to let us do correct remote testing.
> First post was 7.08am local, its 3 /12 hours later and we still have no real
> info, had it been supplied his problem may been identified and resolved 3
> hours ago.
>

No paranoia at all! Actually, just a few minutes ago I did post the
corrent info, I saw that I wasn't getting very far with this whole
learning thing! :)

The two domains names are sharingcenter.eu and sharingcenter.de. The
eu domain has ns1 and ns2 on the same server (IP addresses
178.63.65.136 and 178.63.65.188) and works fine. The de domain has ns1
on this same server (IP address 178.63.65.171) but ns2 on a different
server (IP address 88.198.21.168).

The  178.63.65.* machine has these files:

On the machine intended for
[root at mercury ~]# cat /etc/named.conf
options {
        directory "/etc";
        pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid";
        listen-on {
                any;
                };
        };

zone "." {
        type hint;
        file "/etc/db.cache";
        };

zone "sharingcenter.de" {
        type master;
        file "/var/named/sharingcenter.de.hosts";
        notify yes;
        allow-query { any; };
        };
zone "sharingcenter.eu" {
        type master;
        file "/var/named/sharingcenter.eu.hosts";
        };
[root at mercury ~]# cat /var/named/sharingcenter.de.hosts
$ORIGIN sharingcenter.de.
$TTL 86400
sharingcenter.de. IN      SOA     sharingcenter.de. foo.sharingcenter.de. (
                        2010100401; Serial - increment me
                        10800
                        3600
                        604800
                        38400 )
       IN  NS    ns1.sharingcenter.de.
       IN  NS    ns2.sharingcenter.de.
       IN  A     178.63.65.171
www    IN  A     178.63.65.171
ns1    IN  A     178.63.65.171
ns2    IN  A     88.198.21.168
[root at mercury ~]# cat /var/named/sharingcenter.eu.hosts
$ORIGIN sharingcenter.eu.
$TTL 86400
sharingcenter.eu. IN      SOA    sharingcenter.eu. foo.sharingcenter.eu. (
                        2010092801; Serial - increment me
                        10800
                        3600
                        604800
                        38400 )
       IN  NS    ns1.sharingcenter.eu.
       IN  NS    ns2.sharingcenter.eu.
       IN  A     178.63.65.136
       IN  A     178.63.65.188
www    IN  A     178.63.65.136
www    IN  A     178.63.65.188
ns1    IN  A     178.63.65.136
ns2    IN  A     178.63.65.188
[root at mercury ~]#


The 88.198.21.168 machine has these files:

[root at venus ~]# cat /etc/named.conf
options {
        directory "/etc";
        pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid";
        listen-on {
                any;
                };
        };

zone "." {
        type hint;
        file "/etc/db.cache";
        };

zone "sharingcenter.de" {
        type slave;
        masters { 178.63.65.171; };
        allow-update { 178.63.65.171; };
        file "/var/named/sharingcenter.de.hosts";
        notify yes;
        allow-query { any; };
        allow-notify { 88.198.21.168; };
        };
[root at venus ~]# cat /var/named/sharingcenter.de.hosts
$ORIGIN sharingcenter.de.
$TTL 86400
sharingcenter.de. IN      SOA     sharingcenter.de. foo.sharingcenter.de. (
                        2010100401; Serial - increment me
                        10800
                        3600
                        604800
                        38400 )
       IN  NS    ns2.sharingcenter.de.
ns2    IN  A     88.198.21.168
[root at venus ~]#

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