Hi, I ran through the Perfect server setup, Debian/Lenny, and am trying in vain to get DNS working. I am registered through Godaddy. I setup the domain to point to ns1.domain.com and ns2.domain.com. I also added glue records that set ns1 and ns2 to my ip address. In ipconfig DNS: Zone: domain.com NS: ns1.domain.com Email: mail.domain.com Allow transfers: [my ip address] Then under that zone added records: Code: TYPE NAME DATA A domain.com [my ip address] CNAME www.domain.com domain.com MX domain.com mail.domain.com NS domain.com ns1.domain.com NS domain.com ns2.domain.com But now, no external tools (dnscog, dig) indicate that the zone even exists. I cannot access the site (http, ping, traceroute, etc) through the domain name and cant ping the nameservers. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.
This is really strange. I can now ping ns1.domain.com and ns2.domain.com, and even get to a "It Works!" page if I visit ns1.domain.com in my browser. However, I can not get to the site via domain.com or www.domain.com. Can someone please help me out?
Dude this is easy to troubleshoot. If your server is your own DNS server just use dig dig domain.com @localhost dig www.domain.com @localhost If you want to check an external server for the answer do: dig domain.com @8.8.8.8 Remember that DNS cache's zones, so make sure your server is answering correct and the others will do when the cache expires. If you need to check for a A , NS or MX entry use: dig domain.com MX @8.8.8.8
Yeah, I was doing all of that. Turns out, it was a silly issue that was preventing things from working: I had opened up port 53 on my firewall, but only TCP. Once I added 53 UDP to the allowed connections everything started working. Thanks!
