I had a nightmare with DNS a while back, and spent countless times retstarting the named daemon on a client, only to find out that it should not have been running anyway - hence diverting my attentions down the incorrect route. Just wanted to save someone else the hassle!
By the way Dlongman optimus has given me the idea that you may want to check the syslog on the nameserver and check that named loaded the zonefile for the host you are pinging correctly, without any errors, and if not then send a HUP to named to restart
try this and tell me if you find the address you can not resolve in there.
this should dump the companys tables to that file name now just search for the host your looking for to ensure for your peice of mind that it is in there.
also
if you can ping proxy1.compassgroup.com then name to ip translation HAS to be working. but if you get a failed response then that part is down.
if you can ping proxy1.compassgroup.com via its IP then you know the name to ip part is not working.
if you CAN NOT ping it at all then the host is a) down b) not in the tables.
another side note: now there were talkig about dns my co-worker is like yeah were using new dns servers im like we are? my servers are still running on the old ones. hes like yeah the windows stuff was tossed into a diff. domin. i was like IC so we tried the new dns server and what not. all but one worked. cuz i am gunna bet it is not in the tables.
looks like our problem was a zone transfer problem.
Last edited by Optimus_P; 06-29-2001 at 03:34 PM..
The name server only serves our intranet, I am glad to see that you weren't able to access it!
Its a winnt 4.0 box, and it's functioning as a forwarder. I can ping using FQDN from other win boxes. I don't have another unix box to try from.
Here is the dns config
;
; Database file compassgroup.com.dns for compassgroup.com zone.
; Zone version: 56
;
@ IN SOA compassnt.compassgroup.com. itsupport.compassgroup.com. (
56 ; serial number
3600 ; refresh
600 ; retry
86400 ; expire
3600 ) ; minimum TTL
;
; Zone NS records
;
@ NS compassnt
;
; Zone records
;
chicago A 192.9.203.1
classic A 192.9.202.140
compassnt A 192.9.202.100
email A 192.9.202.100
intranet A 192.9.202.155
intuity A 192.9.202.130
proxy1 A 192.9.202.155
resumix A 192.9.202.120
www A 63.162.128.17
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