In ISPCONFIG control panel in monitor -services the report is shown like this- Data from: 2015-08-24 14:00 Web-Server: Online FTP-Server: Online SMTP-Server: Online POP3-Server: Online IMAP-Server: Online DNS-Server: Online mySQL-Server: Online Ubuntu server 12.04 ISPCONFIG 3.0.5.4P1 Please help.
Try to query your DNS server on the shell of your server with: dig @localhost domain.com replace domain.com with the domain name that your server shall respond.
Thanks Till, I did as you suggested like dig @localhost lions322c2.org and I think I am getting the correct response like ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 44305 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;lions322c2.org. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: lions322c2.org. 86400 IN A 117.247.67.131 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: lions322c2.org. 86400 IN NS ns1.mywebsolutions.co.in. lions322c2.org. 86400 IN NS ns2.mywebsolutions.co.in. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns1.mywebsolutions.co.in. 86400 IN A 117.247.67.131 ns2.mywebsolutions.co.in. 86400 IN A 117.247.67.131 ;; Query time: 0 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Mon Aug 24 18:24:46 2015 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 136 Note: But the problem is it is still not getting propagated to Authoritative servers.
The output is ok, so your server is working fine. maybe its a firewall problem? And you can try to check the zone at intodns.com.
I did a check at intodns.com and get a few errors, but have no idea how I go about it to resolve the same. As until now it was working fine. Code: Category Status Test name Information send feedback Parent Info Domain NS records Nameserver records returned by the parent servers are: ns1.mywebsolutions.co.in. ['117.247.67.131'] (NO GLUE) [TTL=86400] ns2.mywebsolutions.co.in. ['117.247.67.131'] (NO GLUE) [TTL=86400] b2.org.afilias-nst.org was kind enough to give us that information. Pass - TLD Parent Check Good. b2.org.afilias-nst.org, the parent server I interrogated, has information for your TLD. This is a good thing as there are some other domain extensions like "co.us" for example that are missing a direct check. Pass - Your nameservers are listed Good. The parent server b2.org.afilias-nst.org has your nameservers listed. This is a must if you want to be found as anyone that does not know your DNS servers will first ask the parent nameservers. Info - DNS Parent sent Glue The parent nameserver b2.org.afilias-nst.org is not sending out GLUE for every nameservers listed, meaning he is sending out your nameservers host names without sending the A records of those nameservers. It's ok but you have to know that this will require an extra A lookup that can delay a little the connections to your site. This happens a lot if you have nameservers on different TLD (domain.com for example with nameserver ns.domain.org.) Pass - Nameservers A records Good. Every nameserver listed has A records. This is a must if you want to be found. NS Info NS records from your nameservers NS records got from your nameservers listed at the parent NS are: Oups! I could not get any nameservers from your nameservers (the ones listed at the parent server). Please verify that they are not lame nameservers and are configured properly. Pass Recursive Queries Good. Your nameservers (the ones reported by the parent server) do not report that they allow recursive queries for anyone. Pass Same Glue Hmm,I do not consider this to be an error yet, since I did not detect any nameservers at your nameservers. Pass Glue for NS records OK. Your nameservers (the ones reported by the parent server) have no ideea who your nameservers are so this will be a pass since you already have a lot of errors! Error Mismatched NS records WARNING: One or more of your nameservers did not return any of your NS records. Error DNS servers responded ERROR: One or more of your nameservers did not respond: The ones that did not respond are: 117.247.67.131 Pass Name of nameservers are valid OK. The nameservers reported by the parent send out nothing as shown above. I can't check nothing so it's a green! Error Multiple Nameservers ERROR: Looks like you have less than 2 nameservers. According to RFC2182 section 5 you must have at least 3 nameservers, and no more than 7. Having 2 nameservers is also ok by me. Pass Nameservers are lame OK. All the nameservers listed at the parent servers answer authoritatively for your domain. Pass Missing nameservers reported by parent OK. All NS records are the same at the parent and at your nameservers. Error Missing nameservers reported by your nameservers You should already know that your NS records at your nameservers are missing, so here it is again: ns1.mywebsolutions.co.in. ns2.mywebsolutions.co.in. Pass Domain CNAMEs OK. RFC1912 2.4 and RFC2181 10.3 state that there should be no CNAMEs if an NS (or any other) record is present. Pass NSs CNAME check OK. RFC1912 2.4 and RFC2181 10.3 state that there should be no CNAMEs if an NS (or any other) record is present. Pass Different subnets OK. Looks like you have nameservers on different subnets! Pass IPs of nameservers are public Ok. Looks like the IP addresses of your nameservers are public. This is a good thing because it will prevent DNS delays and other problems like Pass DNS servers allow TCP connection OK. Seems all your DNS servers allow TCP connections. This is a good thing and useful even if UDP connections are used by default. Pass Different autonomous systems OK. It seems you are safe from a single point of failure. You must be careful about this and try to have nameservers on different locations as it can prevent a lot of problems if one nameserver goes down. Pass Stealth NS records sent Ok. No stealth ns records are sent SOA Error SOA record No valid SOA record came back! MX Error MX Records Oh well, I did not detect any MX records so you probably don't have any and if you know you should have then they may be missing at your nameservers! WWW Error WWW A Record ERROR: I could not get any A records for www.lions322c2.org! (I only do a cache request, if you recently added a WWW A record, it might not show up here.) Thanks Till for guiding me in proper direction.
Dear Till, Today I have observed that at times the DNS server do work and some times it is not. Though the service for DNS server shows online all the time. is it being affected by some kind of DNS attack, which is preventing it to propagate. I am using fail2ban, but still I apprehend that there is some kind of problem, which I am not able to identify. may be I have not configured fail2ban for dns correctly. Thanks.