[ale] DNS issues

[M Raju]

Not sure about eveyone, but I had queries fail all day yesterday on SF
DNS -[66.23.208.138, 66.23.208.142]

Seems to be OK today...

_Raju


On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 18:10:49 -0500, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 17:35 -0500, Jim Philips wrote:
> > I made numerous upgrades on my Slackware box earlier this week,
> > including BIND. Now DNS seems to have gone crazy. Sometimes I can't
> > retrieve mail. When I try the following:
> >
> > dig mail.speedfactory.net
> 
> Works for me.  I get IP 66.23.201.84.
> 
> # dig mx speedfactory.net
> 
> speedfactory.net.  3600  IN  MX  20 duke.speedfactory.net.
> speedfactory.net.  3600  IN  MX  10 duchess.speedfactory.net.
> 
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> duchess.speedfactory.net. 3600  IN  A  66.23.201.84
> duke.speedfactory.net.  3600    IN  A  66.23.201.83
> 
> Hmmm, not very reliable having both listed MX records on the same
> subnet. <sigh>
> 
> >
> > I get a message back saying no servers could be reached. The DNS servers
> > in /etc/resolv.conf are the correct ones for Speedfactory, as far as I
> > know. This is what I have:
> >
> > nameserver 66.23.208.138
> 
> # host 66.23.208.138
> resolves as ns.speedfactory.net from other networks.
> 
> # host ns.speedfactory.net
> returns 66.23.217.98.
> 
> # host ns.speedfactory.net 66.23.208.138
> (timeout)
> 
> > nameserver 66.203.208.142
> 
> # host 66.203.208.142
> Host 142.208.203.66.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> 
> # host ns2.speedfactory.net
> ns2.speedfactory.net has address 66.23.208.142
> 
> # host ns.speedfactory.net 66.203.208.142
> (timeout)
> 
> http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=speedfactory.net
> Hmmm.
> 
> >
> > But some addresses just can't be found even when I have a perfectly good
> > PPP connection. This issue doesn't exist in Windows (which I'm using
> > now) so it has to be a Linux issue. Any further ideas on what I should
> > check?
> 
> Assuming that SF isn't having issues, what does "iptables --list -n"
> show?  Is it blocking mail/dns?
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
> 
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