Is nameservice running on your system?
Are you able to lookup external domains (ie: have you enabled cacheing?)
Chris Gebhardt
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Adriatik Allamani wrote:
> Hi
>
> Can anyone help me in this??
>
> Thanks
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Adriatik Allamani <aallamani (at mark) ert.gov.al>
> Reply-To: aallamani (at mark) ert.gov.al
> To: Michael Stauber <bq (at mark) solarspeed.net>
> Subject: Re: [coba-e:10374] Re: New NS problem
> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:34:28 +0200
>
> Hi again
>
> The answer for nslookup is:
>
> [adri (at mark) localhost ~]$ nslookup ert-test.com.al
> Server: 217.24.240.3
> Address: 217.24.240.3#53
>
> ** server can't find ert-test.com.al: NXDOMAIN
>
> [adri (at mark) localhost ~]$ nslookup ert-test.com.al 217.24.249.77
> Server: 217.24.249.77
> Address: 217.24.249.77#53
>
> ** server can't find ert-test.com.al: SERVFAIL
>
> [adri@localhost ~]$
>
> The answer from the DNS (217.24.249.77) is SRVFAIL.
>
> I will try to explain the situation.
> I am maintaining the secondary domain for ccTLD.al. We have the first
> DNS Server which is Blue Quartz.
> But we are expecting some problems with it, so we have configured
> another one as back-up. So in this DNS server (217.24.249.77) we have
> addet all the records which are in the DNS Server for Sec Domains of the
> ccTLD.al.
> After adding all the records I checked the records and was all OK. After
> 2 days I was checking the records and some of them comes up with error:
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.3.3rc2 <<>> (at mark) 217.24.249.77 ert-test.com.al ns
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; global options: printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 62075
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;ert-test.com.al. IN NS
>
> ;; Query time: 1166 msec
> ;; SERVER: 217.24.249.77#53(217.24.249.77)
> ;; WHEN: Thu Jul 12 08:22:28 2007
> ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 33
>
> So I have removed all of them (was 7 records) but I couldn't add no
> more. Every record that I add comes up with SRVFAIL.
>
> The DNS Server (217.24.249.77) is not published at the Top Level as DNS
> Server. It is just a PC that has these records and nothing else.
> Is it possible that the real server for the Sec-Domains affect it???
>
> The problem is that all the zones of the Server have the same problem
> not only one zone. I added 6 zones: .com.al, org.al, net.al, gov.al,
> mil.al, edu.al
> And I can't add record to anyone of the zones. It comes out with SRVFAIL
> error???
>
>
> Regards
> Adriatik
>
>
> On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 16:33 +0200, Michael Stauber wrote:
>> Hi Adriatik Allamani,
>>
>>> I have seen the logs, and the only lines
>>> that look like errors are the lines below:
>>>
>>> Jul 11 14:52:39 ns7 named[2795]: lame server resolving
>>> 'ert-test.com.al' (in 'ert-test.com.al'?): 217.24.249.77#53
>>> Jul 11 15:28:00 ns7 named[2795]: lame server resolving
>>> 'ert-test.com.al' (in 'ert-test.com.al'?): 217.24.249.77#53
>>> Jul 11 15:30:26 ns7 named[2795]: lame server resolving
>>> 'ert-test.com.al' (in 'ert-test.com.al'?): 217.24.249.77#53
>>>
>>>
>>> the other lines show the load of the zone files?
>> Those "lame server" reports are ok. It's nothing to worry about.
>>
>> So aside from those "lame server" reports and the messages about the loading
>> of the zone files you get no errors at all? Well, in that case this usually
>> means that there are no errors.
>>
>> What's the problem again, please?
>>
>> What happens when you run this two commands:
>>
>> nslookup ert-test.com.al
>> nslookup ert-test.com.al 217.24.249.77
>>
>
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